A strange space debris will fall on Earth on Friday – Minutouno.com

Astronomers have seen the object moving through space say it is too light to be a space rock. think it’s probably a final stage of a rocket, which it will eventually fall to Earth.

In a couple of meters in diameter, will represent little danger to anyone on Earth, according to the European Space Agency.

The parts of the object that do not burn enter the atmosphere will fall about 100 kilometers southeast off the coast of Sri Lanka on 13 November, the agency predicts.

“But anyway it is spectacular, after the object for a few seconds will become quite bright in the daytime sky, “he wrote on his site the Coordination Centre for Near-Earth Objects European Space Agency.

The observers saw the object, labeled WT1190F, 3 October, the agency said. Then they realized they had been seen before, in 2013, by the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona.

The astronomer Marco Micheli said the fall of the object offered “an opportunity ideal test our preparedness for future events involving atmospheric entry asteroids, this because the components of the current stage, since its discovery until impact, are very similar. “

The agency believes the object It is probably part of a rocket because analysis of their movements suggest that its density is about 10% of the water.

“It’s too low to be a space rock, but is compatible with empty shell, as it would be a used part of a rocket, “the agency said.

If it is to be a rocket residue manmade, would be” a lost piece of space history coming back to pursue ” said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard-Smithsonian, told the journal Nature.

This brings us back to the reentry of the Skylab space station, an event that became a sensation in the Media in 1979. Parts of the station survived reentry and fell in Australia.

Now that scientists know that WT1190F comes back, have organized a global campaign to observe the input and impact.

Scientists have long been alarmed by the possibility that an unknown asteroid appears out of nowhere and is in collision with the Earth.

In fact, the meeting occurs just weeks of the discovery of a new asteroid, traveling 124,000 mph and will happen on Friday and Saturday at a distance of 480,000 kilometers from Earth.

Known as the asteroid Halloween, the space rock It is between 15 and 30 times larger than the asteroid that exploded over a city in southern Russia in 2013, accusing great harm and injury.

The astronomers found the asteroid Halloween just in early October, and They were taken by complete surprise in the case that fell in Russia.

With regard to this new object, the inevitable conspiracy theories are beginning to be disseminated regarding his name, whose letters “WTF” reminiscent of a profane acronym, and the impact date, Friday 13 November. Some of the more suspicious among us believe that space agencies are hiding alien life there and say that the object is actually a spaceship, or something even more sinister.