"WT1190F" is the name for space junk that will hit Earth

[jim mcnamara]

http://www.natureworldreport.com/2015/10/a-piece-of-space-junk-wt1190f-will-impact-earth-on-november-13/

On November 13 a small chunk of junk, named WT1190f will crash into earth; origin seems to be unknown. No , not aliens. It is human-created space junk.

Does anyone know more about the tracking asemblage they are inplementing from an existing plan - to keep close track on the object, and to test out the system?

 

[edward]

Here is a link that doesn't have a bunch of naked women on the bottom of the page. (Not that there is anything wrong with that)

WT1190F travels a highly elliptical orbit, swinging out twice as far as the Earth–Moon distance, Gray says. Gray’s calculations show that it will hit Earth at 6:20 utc, hitting the ocean about 65 kilometers off the southern tip of Sri Lanka. Much, if not all, of it will burn up in the atmosphere, but “I would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it”, Gray says.

So far no one has mentioned that it will burn up on entry into the atmosphere. I guess I could have said re-entry

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mysterious-space-junk-will-plunge-to-earth-in-november/

 

[tfr000]

Sort of like J002E3...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3