To start off with a verifiable truth, yes, there's something hurtling through space in our direction. And yes, it's going to get in the Earth's atmosphere and would probably land in the Indian Ocean next month. But no, experts don't have the exact idea of what it is. And, no, that doesn't make it a UFO.
According to the European Space Agency's released statement the previous week ago about an object that was spotted to make a line and heading towards Earth. News reports are zeroing in the probability of collision and the unknown object's absurd yet suitable nickname. Formally named as WT1190F, the object's identification number has been commonly shortened to "WTF."
However, ESA experts already have a pretty good understanding of what it might be - possibly be the remains from past missions, like the arched shell part of a used rocket - and they're certain that it's not probable to be of threat.
On ESA's blog on Thursday, they wrote that the anticipated November 13 comeback of what is probably a rocket body poses a very small amount of danger to anyone.
CBS News Space Correspondent Bill Harwood said that if anything comes in contact to the surface, it would be very little; so the chances of anybody being hurt are very distant. The idea that it usually brings to mind is that every satellite and rocket parts reenter on a reasonably regular basis so this is not unusual at all.
Catalina Sky Survey was the first to discover WT1190F in 2013 which recognizes identifies near-Earth objects in space.
Watching the WT1190F as Harwood explains it could also help experts for a better understanding as to what specifically when something comes into contact with the atmosphere at exceptionally high amount of speed and then breaks apart: Where in the altitude does the separation begins? Or how much debris goes to the surface?"
