attention! The Soviet era probe to re -insert the air this week can reach the surface

Fifty years ago, the former The Soviet Union launched an investigation into Venus. However, he never made it. Instead, missile engines are closed early, and the investigation was stuck in the Earth’s orbit. Now, it returns to the ground.

Vinra 8, which was launched on March 27, 1972, was one of A pair of investigations designed to study the surface of Venus. Four days later, I launched the second investigation, which, after being stuck in the Earth’s orbit, Cosmos 482 was indexed.

The investigation is estimated at about half a ton, and it is expected to re -enter the Earth’s atmosphere on about 10 May, or give or take a day and a half, according to The latest update from Marco LangbroekAnd that was tracing the object for many years.

The most interesting thing is that this landing (or re -logging capsule) has been built for survival in Venus’s dense atmosphere. So, unlike the missiles in which we see the air to enter the ground and separation (thought Recent incidents in StarspThis is unlikely to happen with Kosmos 482.

Jonathan McDawell, an astronomical physicist at the Chandra Senic Center for X -ray, said it is not a reason for panic.

“So you have something mainly the size of a small car plowing in the ground at (240 km) per hour,” he said. “Let’s not exaggerate it, right? It is not, like, evacuating something in the city. But it is like a small plane crash or something like that: You don’t want to stand below.”

McDwell is well known to him on a large scale Satellite tracking database and debris. In fact, it was he who assumed it for the first time in 2000 for what could be Kosmos 482.

“Once again in 2000, I used to return to every object in the NORAD spacecraft, in an attempt to find out what every being, all of them are 25,000 of them as it was at that time. I faced this one and went,” well, this is an extraordinary thing. ”

It was not widely known what to be at that time because the United States and the Soviet Union were in the midst of the Cold War, and many things were secret.

Where it is expected to crash

As for the place where he might collide, he was told Langbroek recently SpaceWeather.com“With the orbital tunnel 52 degrees, the Kosmos 482 lineage can decrease anywhere between 52 degrees north and 52 degrees south,” Langberck said.

It covers a lot of the world in the south and in the middle of the latitudes.

Watch | Kosmos 482 SpeScent Cart, 27 Oct 2020

However, McDawell said it is likely to descend in the ocean, because the Earth is mostly covered with water.

“The possibilities are … you will be in the ocean or in an empty area. But there is … there is a decent opportunity to go down in an area where there are people, although in populated areas, most populated areas are not like the population side. So the opportunities will not harm anyone.”

This is a fairly familiar story.

In 1979, NASA’s empty satellite station re -inserted the atmosphere to the Earth after a few failed attempts to maintain it in orbit. Many of them were burned in the air, but the debris fell on the Indian Ocean and in parts of Australia.

The big differences between the two are that Skylab was not built to withstand the thick atmosphere of Venus, it was 70 tons, not half a ton.

Now, the belief is that Kosmos 482 is the craft of lineage, but it is certainly unknown.

The launch consists of several elements, including missile and service unit (which provides energy from other things). The service unit is believed to re -enter the Earth’s atmosphere in 1981.

McDowell said that there is a possibility that what was classified as the unit of service, which re -inserted the atmosphere in 1981, was actually landing and that Kosmos 482 could instead be the service unit. In this case, it is likely to burn in the air.

However, he said based on the size and density of the current object called Kosmos 482, it is more likely to be Venus Lander.

The astronomer, Ralph Vandberg, released Cosmos 482, which showed a kind of protrusion. He speculated that the umbrella may be, but this is not likely to be confirmed because it will burn in the atmosphere when re -entering.

Since this is an unlikely re -entry, it is difficult to determine a place or whenever this will re -enter the Earth’s atmosphere.

“Because we do not know when he will return to a few hours at best, even on the previous day, we will not be able to say,” Here is the place where you will come down. “” We will have to know that after the truth. “