From a Texas dental office to the Canadian tundra, here’s where space debris has crashed to Earth

This much is certain: An out-of-control Chinese booster rocket went up and will come down — one of the largest objects to reenter the atmosphere without any controls to guide its trajectory.

With oceans and unpopulated areas covering much of the globe, it’s statistically unlikely that any piece of falling space junk would land in someone’s suburban backyard. But it’s also not outside the realm of the possibility: Ever since humans began sending rockets into space, pieces of debris have turned up in unexpected places.