It’s a plane, it’s a star, it’s…it’s…space junk?

NASA photo

The Early Ammonia Servicer sits on a rack inside a shuttle cargo bay. The EAS was delivered to the international space station aboard the shuttle Discovery in 2001, and was later jettisoned into space.

Portland area residents wanting to catch a glimpse of space junk as it descends toward Earth should look to the sky Friday night, according to local experts.

The time to look for the Early Ammonia Servicer, or EAS, is 10:11 p.m. Friday, according to spaceweather.com.

The International Space Station astronauts threw an obsolete, refrigerator-sized ammonia reservoir overboard a year ago and the 1400-lb piece of space junk has been circling Earth ever since.

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Now its orbit has become easy to spot with the naked eye, the Web site reported.

The EAS is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrate within about another year.