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One spacecraft This month is expected to start an uncontrollable accident on earth this month, but the space tracing experts will be clearly determined when the landing place will be or no risk.
The craftsmall called space 482 was put into operation in 1972 by the meantime. However, a missile malfunction kept the area inside the orbit of the earth, and it gradually decays for more than 50 years.
Dutch scientist Marco Langbroek, with the University of Delft Technology, the mass of the metal in the related press is about half a ton relatively small.
If the Earth’s Atmosphere will be reented, but if it is not, there is a chance with the risk a Autumn of random meteorite, Each year occurs in a few. In your life, you are further increasing the risk of scoring by hitting lightning, “Langbroek said.
The chance that the spacecraft hit someone or something “cannot be completely excluded”.
Langbroek told Space.com that he Current forecast for re-entry May 10, moreover or a few days negative on both sides. In 482, the space estimates that about 242 km / h.
After the actual launch of art, most returned to earth in ten years. Researchers consider a spherical object of about one meter – the diameter of the diameter – the last 53 years falling in high height.
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In the 1970s, the highest point of the orbit was about 10,000 kilometers from the ground surface, but now falls below 400 kilometers and falls.
There are concerns after the orbit in more than half a century, but the heat shield and parachute can be concessed or beyond.
In the hot shield, a failure, along with Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysics, together with Harvard-Smithsonian Center, explained in an email that will be a spacecraft burn diving through the atmosphere.
If the heat catches the shield, he said, “This will include again and have a half-toned metal object from heaven.”
The spacecraft can enter anywhere in 51.7 degrees North and South entit – as north Edmonton, Alta .. and almost all the way to South America’s Cape Horn. But the majority of the planet water, “the chance is good, it really will end in ocean,” said Langbroek.
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