UFO Is Space Junk Headed Back To Earth

They suspect that the object may be a piece of old man made space junk which appears to be around 2m long and seems to be hollow or bent. WT1190F’s approach also comes at a time in which NASA is tracking near-Earth asteroids, but there is not now a similar program for objects farther away from Earth.

Mysterious object officially called WT1190F will hit earth on November 13 at 6:15 am and will fall into the Indian ocean, almost 65 miles far from the Sri Lanka’s southern tip. It was detected by the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona. Or as Jonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics puts it, “A lost piece of space history that’s come back to haunt us”.

I would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it.

An observing campaign is now taking shape to follow the object as it dives through Earth’s atmosphere, says Gerhard Drolshagen, co-manager of the European Space Agency’s Near-Earth Object office in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

Named “WT1190F”, the object is locked into a “deep Earth orbit”, travelling around the planet at a large distance.

According to independent astronomy software developer Bill Gray, scientists were initially confused by the space trash, but they were able to compute its trajectory by collecting more observations and looking at previous telescope archives.

With its average density being about 10 percent water, the ESA said that it is likely manmade and not a space rock. “It is also possible that the debris dates back decades, perhaps even to the Apollo era”.

A giant piece of space debris is hurtling towards Earth and is set to crash into our planet in the middle of November.

I just hope we get to learn what it is. But that may be the end of the concerted effort to study this class of object.

This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on October 23, 2015.