At about 12.24pm AEST today, remnants of China's biggest rocket re-entered the atmosphere before crashing into the Indian Ocean, ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit Earth.
With most of the Earth's surface covered by water, the odds of a populated area on land being hit were low, but uncertainty over the rocket's orbital decay and China's failure to issue stronger reassurances in the run-up to the re-entry fuelled anxiety.
But Chinese state media have said the rocket debris hit in ocean west of the Maldives archipelago, and says most of the debris was burnt up on its way down.
It reportedly landed at longitude 72.47 degrees east and latitude 2.65 degrees north.