Half -tone piece of Soviet rocket may have crashed through the atmosphere over southern gland | Science, climate & tech news

After 53 years in orbit, a piece of Soviet rocket has driven back into auto -size through the atmosphere.

Scientists have not yet set their location, but an organization has predicted that it occurred in southern England the early time on Saturday morning.

It is not immediately known how much of the rocket survived the blazing hot descent. Scientists suggested that she was burned or separated at the last minute, somewhere between 7 a.m. and 8.30 a.m.

Cosmos 482 started in 1972 and was landed on Venus, but it was caught in orbit after a mission failed.

Scientists who persecuted the lander when he finally fell onto the earth believed that he was falling when he stepped back into the atmosphere.

EU Space Surveillance and Tracking published on X, which is “falling in the last estimated re -entry window”.

The European space agency said […] Between 06:04 UTC and 07:32 UTC “.

However, the six major space organizations that follow the re -entry have placed it through the Atlantic to Germany and even Australia, with the astronomer Dr. Marco Langbroek assigned her predictions.

He says that the monitoring and persecution of EU world spaces has calculated that it crashed through the atmosphere above the south of England.

In the Soviet era, Cosmos 482 emerged from the area of ​​the USSR in today's Kazakhstan.

The upper level of the rocket, which was responsible for bringing it out of the orbit, failed.

“The upper stage did not work on the right and only left the probe around the earth in orbit,” said Smithsonian Astronomer Jonathan McDowell.

Parts of the rocket entered the earth's atmosphere again in the 1980s, but a piece remained in the orbit, from which it was assumed that they were left behind by the spaceship.

“Years later I went to the data and went these debris […] There was much longer than the other stuff. It seems to be denser. It doesn't behave like debris, ”said McDowell.

“I found [strong enough] To survive the crushing power of the atmosphere of Venus. “

Mr. McDowell. said it weighed about “half a ton” and “was about three feet through”.

“When it smashed into the atmosphere and goes with this enormous speed, the energy is converted into heat [and] You get this fireball. “

When it comes to earth, McDowell said that Cosmos 482 would “only go a few hundred miles per hour”.

“But it's still half a ton that falls from the sky with a few hundred miles per hour. It will hurt when it hits you,” he said.

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It is assumed that scientists carry out further calculations to find out exactly what happened.