Scientists believe it is probably a part of a rocket. Parts of the object that do not burn upon entering the atmosphere will fall about 100 kilometers southeast off the coast of Sri Lanka
Astronomers have seen the object moving through space say it is too light to be a space rock. They think that probably is a final stage of a rocket, which finally returns home.
A couple of meters (about 6.5 feet) in diameter, little danger to anyone on Earth will arise, says the European Space Agency.
In a couple of meters in diameter, represent little danger to anyone on Earth, according to the European Space Agency.
The parts of the object that do not burn upon entering the atmosphere will fall about 100 kilometers southeast off the coast of Sri Lanka, the agency predicts.
“But anyway be 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 detected the object, labeled WT1190F, on 3 October, the ESA said. According to the agency, then they realized he had been seen before, in 2013, by the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona.
Now, astronomers are champing at the bit to observe the object as it approaches and enters the atmosphere.
The agency believes the object is probably part of a rocket because analysis of their movements suggest having a density of about 10% of the water.
“is too low to be a natural space rock, but is compatible with an empty shell, used as part of a rocket,” said ESA.
If you happen to be space debris would be “a waste of space history has come back to haunt us,” 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 takes place just a few weeks after the discovery of a new asteroid, traveling at 124,000 mph and will happen on Friday and Saturday at a distance of 480,000 kilometers from Earth.
Dubbed the asteroid Halloween, the space rock is between 15 and 30 times larger than the asteroid that exploded over a city in southern Russia in 2013, accusing extensive damage and injuries.
The astronomers found the asteroid Halloween just in early October, and 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” acronym reminiscent of a layman, 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.
“Before anyone starts screaming, this may well be space junk, but the big question is: will we know,” wrote the website UFO International Project. “Unless we have millions of pounds in underwater research team, it is extremely unlikely that we will know what this UFO is actually called WTF!”.
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