In November, the Earth will collapse unusual piece of space debris – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, October 26 – RIA Novosti. A large piece of debris under the code WT1190F, is a piece of spent rocket stages would fall to Earth on Friday, November 13, near the island of Sri Lanka, reports ESA.

A fragment of the spent rocket stage or other large piece of space debris that gets code WT1190F, was opened two years ago, in February 2013. “Artificial satellite” Earth was soon lost, and astronomers believed that he would not return to the vicinity of Earth.

In October of this year, European scientists, watching the near-Earth space in the project Catalina Sky Survey, designed to Search asteroids discovered something unusual. Before their eyes appeared unusual object, which is rapidly approaching the Earth and which did not belong to any group known near-Earth asteroids.

Continuing his study and raising archival photographs over the past few years, Gerhard Drolshagen (Gerhard Drolshagen) of the Service NEOs ESA in Noordwijk (Netherlands), was surprised to find that he and his team have to deal with the lost object WT1190F. It turned out to be rotated at a very elongated orbit, the distal end of which is located beyond the orbit of the Moon.

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The new observations and old images have helped scientists make that very rarely do astronomers – to predict is where and fall when the fragment of space debris. According to their calculations, the decline will happen November 13, 2015, at about 9.20 pm Moscow. WT1190F return to Earth 100 kilometers from the coast of the island of Sri Lanka.

According to Drolshagen, this “heavenly body” of human origin length of 1-2 meters completely burn up in the atmosphere, but it does not exclude the possibility, that part may be all the same to reach the surface of the Indian Ocean. Scientist advises not to “fish” in the drop zone WT1190F and not try to get photos from the event, risking their lives.

Experts ESA and other space agencies, he said, used the event as a “simulation” of falling asteroid, like Chelyabinsk meteorite, for testing warning systems and calculation of the flight path. Another interesting question that may try to uncover the scientists – to understand what gave rise to this piece of garbage. According Drolshagen, “parent” WT1190F can be both modern lunar mission, and “Apollo” 60 years of the last century.