On Friday November 13, plus one day be considered “bad luck”, you will also witness the fall of a piece of space junk on the planet, a phenomenon that is not of any danger to humans, but that will serve astrophysicists to test new alert detection systems.
In this mysterious space comoWT1190F fragment is known, is about 2 meters long and is possibly hollow, and what dazzles science is not its size, but because they do not know what can be.
It is expected that this piece of space junk prodecente contact with the atmosphere on 13 November at 06.19 GMT ( 07.19 CET Spanish) and disintegrated in large part, though some remains could fall in the Indian Ocean, particularly in southern Sri Lanka.
But what could it be? As space junk is something that has created the human being, and the most romantic scientists believe may be an old piece of the Apollo missions, “a missing piece of space history that returns to haunt us,” says Jonathan McDowell, Harvard astrophysicist to Nature News. The most logical thing being considered is constituting parts of ancient solar panels or simple communication or satellite parts.
Another peculiarity of WT1190F is its pronounced elliptical orbit that moves very distant moon. NASA only has cataloged 20 objects that orbit at that distance, which is unusual in all space debris moving around the Earth.
In addition to its catastrophic significance because of its nature and the day his collision with Earth will be a great opportunity for scientists to study the interaction of external objects on our planet. It also aims to try WT1190F this piece of space junk to crash into the ground, a new exterior detection system alerts to “cover our backs” to a future outside threat.
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