Space junk coming home

On November 13, a lost piece of space debris will re-enter Earth's atmosphere and probably impact the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka.

The thing is, nobody knows what the thing is.  They do know it's not very big.

So I'm not sure how much of this object will survive re-entry and oceanfall.  And if anybody can find it after it heads for the briny deep.

But maybe they'll get better  pictures on approach.

Incoming space junk a scientific opportunity


"The event not only offers a scientific opportunity to watch something plunge through the atmosphere, but also tests the plans that astronomers have put in place to coordinate their efforts when a potentially dangerous space object shows up. “What we planned to do seems to work,” Drolshagen says. “But it’s still three weeks to go.” WT1190F was detected by the Catalina Sky Survey, a programme based at the University of Arizona, Tucson, aimed at discovering asteroids and comets that swing close to Earth."

Mark your calendar!