Posted on 11/02/2015 4:08:04 PM PST by BenLurkin
An unusual re-entry is in store for Nov 13.
Object WT1190F discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey (a Near Earth Asteroid survey) on Oct 3, and (as it turns out) observed earlier in 2013 and 2012, is predicted to impact Earth near 6:19 UT on Nov 13, south of Sri Lanka near lat 5.625 N lon 81.452 E.
This object is not an asteroid but an artificial object in a trans-Lunar, earth-centered orbit with perigee currently at 5732 km and apogee at 607 773 km (1.6 Lunar Distance).
It is currently not known from what launch this object is, but orbit and orbital behaviour clearly affected by SRP point out it is artificial, i.e. it is a rocket stage of a Lunar or interplanetary mission.
Bring it. Time for things to end instead of going on like they are.
Why say it’s artificial and not say what it actually is?
Because they don't know what it is.
Due to the orbit, it's not a naturally occurring object. It's something WE (mankind) put into that orbit, either on a lunar or interplanetary mission.
From the linked article:
The motion of this body over about two years can be modelled in detail only if the effects of solar radiation pressure are taken into account. The intensity of this solar push is proportional to the object's area-to-mass ratio, which can therefore be estimated, providing an indirect clue to its density. It turns out that this body has a mean density that is about 10% that of water. This is too low to be a natural space rock, but it is compatible with being a hollow shell, such as the spent upper stage of a rocket.
Reentered and burned up July 1995
I am betting it burned up as its trajectory when they jettisoned it was headed toward earth. I think it was Apollo 12’s SV-B that was lost and found and maybe lost again, could be one of those from a different mission.
I looked it up. They sent the Apollo 13 service module on a trajectory to impact the moon. The Apollo 12 S-IVB is still floating around up there - somewhere.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-IVB
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Wormwood?
Might be lucky 12!
Or the Apollo 16 lunar module? They couldn’t control it after undocking, but I would think it crashed into the moon long ago.
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