This morning at 07:19 Italian time the space debris WT1190F, as indicated by some researchers of the Apollo 10 module Snoopy, returned to Earth, destroying contact with the atmosphere above the ‘ Indian Ocean, about 100 kilometers south of the coast of Sri Lanka.
The space debris was seen falling Live by engineers at NASA, ESA, the International Astronomical Center in Abu Dhabi, and the SETI Institute, who followed him in flight on a specially chartered plane. Now, what’s left of it, it will be analyzed to understand the source.
Discovered more than two years ago The fragment has alarmed the whole space community not because of its danger – that disintegrated was pretty obvious – but mainly because the return to Earth of WT1190F was interpreted as a sign that the problem of debris rotating around the Earth is becoming increasingly urgent.
Another video of return (not confirmed):
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