It narrows between 9 and 12 May The window for the uncontrolled return in the’atmosphere spatial debrity Kosmos 482a Soviet descent (Lander) module weighing 500 kilos, enclosed in a protective titanium shell, which it may not completely disintegrate thus reaching the earth’s surface. The debrite, which has a one meter diametercould fall into the evening of Saturday 10 May with a margin of uncertainty Of about 36 hours, According to the latest calculations updated by the Satellite expert Marco Langbroek, professor of Space Situational Awareness at the Technical University of Delf (Netherlands).
Still No clear indication As for the world regions more at risk impact: the return could take place between 52 degrees of north latitude and 52 degrees of south latitude, one very large slice of the globe which includes most of the oceans and the emerged landsincluding United States, Central-southern Europe, Central America And southern, Africa, China, India And Australia.
Therencerness on date and place it will decrease as we will approach the actual returneven if the Margin of error it will remain anyway high up to the last.
Kosmos 482 came launched fromSoviet Union The March 31, 1972 to achieve Venus. The Lander managed to reach his orbit parking around the earth, but a problem with a timer led to premature shutdown of an enginenot allowing the probe to leave towards its true destination. “Recently declassified Russian historical documents, discovered by Anataly Zak, point out that, after the failure, the Lander was deliberately separated from the main vehicle by the probe operators,” writes Langbroek on his blog. “My analysis, published in 2022, suggests that this happened in June 1972”.
In the past few hours, the Dutch satellite hunter Ralf Vandebergh managed to acquire a first series of capsule images in the terrestrial orbit. From its spherical shape seems to emerge an elongated structure that Vandebergh hypothesizes can be the parachute escaped. It is not of the same opinion Langbroek, who claims that the alleged parachute in the images is actually an artifact due to the movement of the telescope and the atmospheric distortion.
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