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Watch how an old Venus spacecraft tumbled before crashing to Earth
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Kosmos 482 , a Soviet -era spacecraft intended for Venus crashed back to Earth over the weekend .
A German radar station spotted the uncrewed landing capsule passing over its antenna.
If it indeed plunged into the Indian Ocean as some computer simulations have suggested, "only the whales and albatross saw it," a Dutch scientist said.
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