The remnant of the rocket, which weighed 22 tons and is approximately 100 feet in length, was part of China’s first module for its Tianhe space station.
Earlier Saturday, the Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit largely financed by the federal government, predicted re-entry would occur on Saturday at 11:02 p.m.
Those coordinates covered a wide swath of the Earth, including North America south of New York, South America, all of Africa and Australia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain.
There are no recorded instances of a human being killed by space debris reentering the atmosphere, the Post reported.
In March, an out-of-control SpaceX rocket stage re-entered Earth’s atmosphere near Seattle, the Times reported.