It will drop a “rare space object” in the Indian Ocean – Infobae.com

   
   

 
     

       
       
 
       
 
       
       
 

The space objects fall to 100 kilometers of Sri Lanka Credit:

The object was named WT1190F and discovered in 2013 “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

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Tim Flohrer, Office Space Debris in Darmstadt (Germany), recognized that it is a “object is rather small, at most a couple of meters in diameter “, and it is expected that” a significant portion, if not all, can burn completely in the atmosphere. “

Just would fall about 100 kilometers off the southern coast of Sri Lanka , in the Indian Ocean.

In turn, ESA confirmed that entry into the Earth’s atmosphere not cause risks and that its mass is not large enough .

     

     

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