Hold. He was scheduled to fall on the coast of Sri Lanka.
Scientists who followed the expected impact for yesterday of a “strange object” space, presumably a fragment of a rocket could not confirm his sighting or fall in expected point to about 65 miles south of Sri Lanka.
“We have not seen anything. Even contacted NASA (the US space agency) and also did not see anything . We heard rumors that someone had spotted a fireball in the sky, but it was not verified, “said the scientist GDK Mahanama, the Ruhunu University.
> The object, dubbed WT1190F, was due to collide in the Indian Ocean, although it is expected that part of it, about two meters in diameter, will disintegrate upon contact with the atmosphere.
Mahanama was in the company of members of the European Space Agency (ESA), which had been expressly transferred to Sri Lanka to study the impact of the object.
“We installed next to a pair of French colleagues, two points to observe and record the fall of the object,” the Sri Lankan scientist. The astronomer and astrologer Chandra Wickramasinghe of the University of Cambridge, explained to Efe by telephone from the United Kingdom that “the fact that not see anything does not mean that the impact did not occur.”
“The reason could be poor visibility due to clouds and rain,” he said Wickramasinghe, who was also following the trajectory of the space object.
Researchers at the German University of Stuttgart had planned to continue the entry into the atmosphere and the subsequent impact of WTF1190F from the air, installing monitoring instruments in an airplane, according to the ESA, although still unknown results.
From 10.00 local time (04.00 GMT) to 14.00 (08.00 GMT), the “flying ban was imposed, fishing and navigate a diameter of 45 kilometers “radius of the point where the impact was expected,
Efe said Navy spokesman of Sri Lanka, Akran Alavi.
The head of the Sri Lanka Air Service, Krishanthi Thisera, had said yesterday that flights Bandaranaike International Airport near Colombo, would not be affected by the space object, and only some routes were to be modified.
The object was discovered in 2013 by “Catalina Sky Survey”, a program operated by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona that uses data from three telescopes to search for comets, asteroids and near-Earth objects.
As it is, the ESA says it’s a “pretty special” object as is probably man-made.
Here, Emmet Fletcher, spokesman for the ESA in Spain, he had explained to Efe that what they are if enough sure of is that it is not an asteroid, but quite possibly a remnant of a lunar mission.
Fletcher recalled that in space orbit over 600,000 Space debris objects between one and ten centimeters (20,000 are larger than ten centimeters).
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