Scientists who followed the expected impact for this vierens a “strange object” space , presumably a fragment of a rocket could not confirm his sighting or fall in expected point about 65 miles south of Sri Lanka.
“We have not seen anything. Even contacted the NASA and 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, located in the southernmost point of the island.
The object, named WT1190F , was due to collide in the Indian Ocean at 11:40 local time (5:40 GMT), although it was 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, said 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 “noted Wickramasinghe, who was also following the trajectory of the space object.
Researchers at the German University of Stuttgart had planned to continue the entry in the atmosphere and the subsequent impact of WTF1190F from the air, installing monitoring instruments in an airplane, according to the ESA, although the results are still unknown
From 10:00 local time (0400 GMT) until 14.: 00 hours (08:00 GMT), the “no-fly, fish and sail in a diameter of 45 kilometers’ radius of the point where the impact was expected, won spokesman Navy 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 man probably is done.
In this sense, Emmet Fletcher, spokesman for the ESA in Spain, had explained that what they are themselves quite sure of is that it is not an asteroid, but quite possibly a remnant of a moon mission .
Fletcher recalled that in space orbit over 600 thousand objects of space debris between one and ten centimeters (20,000 are bigger than 10 centimeters).
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