Snoopy, scrap space mission Apollo 10, It may fall on the ground this morning at about 7:19 Italian time. Where? To the south of Sri Lanka
BOLOGNA – SNOOPY SIGHTED BY LOIANO
Rome, 13 November 2015 – It could be ‘Snoopy’ to fall on the earth, this morning. Do not hound the protagonist of the beautiful strips of Peanuts by Schulz , but lunar module mission Apollo 10 , which is the nice bum and scrap spatial this morning should “pierce” the Earth’s atmosphere, more or less at the Indian Ocean. I am convinced astronomers of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), who have observed with the telescope Loiano, near Bologna. The impact with the atmosphere is expected to 7.19 ( Italian time) .
WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN – Scrap “should burn in the atmosphere, but could survive fragments which could end up in the water,” said Hector Perozzi, operations manager at the Center for Coordination Neo (Near Earth Objects) of ‘European Space Agency (ESA) -. “A plane carrying researchers from NASA and ESA – added Perozzi – will follow the impact with the atmosphere.” Any fragments should fall into an area a hundred kilometers in South Sri Lanka . And scientists are eager to study the shining path.
THE HISTORY OF SNOOPY – This is the identikit traced by researchers of ‘ Inaf : sull’arancione color, shape drum (deductible by changes in brightness), length of about three meters, weighing about 10 tons. As explained by Joseph Altavilla, he suggests that this is just one of the protagonists of the conquest of the moon. It could be a piece of which had gone missing for a long time: the lunar module of Apollo 10 launched in 1969 to test the landing maneuver. Discovered in February 2013, WT1190F was soon identified as space junk, but still it is not clear what it is. Its orbit is “conditioned by the pressure of solar radiation – explained Perozzi – tells us that something is lighter than an asteroid and cable, as a scrap space.” The lunar module was named Snoopy, while the command was named Charlie Brown. Snoopy was not destroyed by controlled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere and crash on the moon, but it was ‘thrown’ into space over the moon. Shortly after the module ran out of batteries for communications and he was never heard from again. If it was really him, he may have embarked on an orbit that is taking him to collide with Earth. But experts do not rule out that it might be a scrap of other lunar missions, such as Russian, Chinese or Indian. Beyond the nature of the scrap, stressed Perozzi, “the important point is that we can find these items in advance, accurately calculate their orbits and predict the exact time of the impact.”
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