If you get killed by the Chinese space station that's due to fall out of the sky this weekend you'll probably be remembered as having had one of the most unlikely deaths on record.

Your chances of being hit by Tiangong-1, China’s first space station, are about 10 million times smaller than your yearly chance of being struck by lightning.

But Melburnians would still be advised to watch the skies over the coming days, just in case, with much of Victoria inside a band where there's a very slightly larger possibility of the debris hitting.

The shape of China's falling space station Tiangong-1 can be seen in this radar image from the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques near Bonn, Germany. Credit:Fraunhofer Institute FHR via AP

If you die, you would be the first known person ever to be killed by falling space debris. But maybe not the first animal; according to legend, when the remains of the American space station Skylab fell on outback Western Australia in 1979, it killed a rabbit.