Cape Capeeral, Florida (AP)-half a ton The Soviet spacecraft This never made it To Venus 53 years are expected to return to Earth this week.
It was built to land on The hotter solar system hutsThe spacecraft covered with a veitanium, which is expected to happen on Saturday. But the experts said that it is likely to descend on the water, cover most of the world, or an abandoned region.
Marin Bilinski, a university scientist Colorado Bulder, said that her chances of a populated area are “small and endless.”
“Although we can expect most of this being will not burn in the atmosphere while re -entering, it may be severely affected by the effect,” Bilinski said in an email.
By Friday, all indicators indicated to re -enter early on Saturday morning, US time, or give or take several hours. While the trackers of space debris all over the world passed their expectations, it was still too early to know exactly when and where the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 will decrease. Understanding was due to the potential solar activity and the old case of the spacecraft. It was expected that the umbrellas were now useless and that their batteries have died long ago.
Dutch scientist Marco Langbroke estimated the speed of the effect at 150 miles per hour (242 km) if the spacecraft remains intact.
Soviets Kosmos launched 482 in 1972, and intended to send him to Venus to join another spacecraft in the Venera program. But the missile failure left this stuck in the orbit around the ground. The gravity continued to wander around it and was expected to finally cause his death.
Figure, the spacecraft will be -3 feet (1 meters) via and fill over more than 1000 pounds (495 kg)-the last piece of Cosmos 482 to fall from the sky. All other parts decreased during a decade.
Any wreckage survival will belong to Russia under the United Nations Treaty.
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