Space junk to impact off Sri Lanka on Nov 13

SCIENTISTS have worked out that WT1190F will plunge to Earth above the Indian Ocean on November 13, 2015, making it one of the very few space objects whose impact can be accurately predicted. More unusual still, WT1190F was a “lost” piece of space debris orbiting far beyond the Moon, ignored and unidentified, before being glimpsed by a telescope in early October.

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