The infamous space object WT1190F entered the atmosphere south of Sri Lanka around local time 1:19 a.m. ET on November 13, 2015 during the brightest part of the day.
Due to cloudy skies the reentry was not visible from the ground but the object was captured by a team of veteran U.S. and German observers of spacecraft re-entries aboard a plane sponsored by The International Astronomical Center (IAC) and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency.
Before the unknown object, thought to be a discarded rocket body, burned up in the atmosphere, residents on the Southern Coast of Sri Lanka heard a loud noise like an explosion.
If you look at the object then it does not really look like a discarded rocket body but more like a solid triangular object before it suddenly falls apart into two big pieces. Was it just space junk?
Due to cloudy skies the reentry was not visible from the ground but the object was captured by a team of veteran U.S. and German observers of spacecraft re-entries aboard a plane sponsored by The International Astronomical Center (IAC) and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency.
Before the unknown object, thought to be a discarded rocket body, burned up in the atmosphere, residents on the Southern Coast of Sri Lanka heard a loud noise like an explosion.
If you look at the object then it does not really look like a discarded rocket body but more like a solid triangular object before it suddenly falls apart into two big pieces. Was it just space junk?