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'Danger' map where Chinese missiles are expected to fall this weekend, 22-ton facility 'threatens' Albania

Politiko 2021-05-08 09:02:29

'Danger' map where Chinese missiles are expected to fall this weekend,

A large Chinese rocket that is out of control is expected to land on Earth this weekend.

The Long March 5B rocket, which is about 100 meters long and weighs 22 tons, is expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere "around May 8," according to a statement from Defense Department spokesman Mike Howard, who said the Space Command the US is pursuing the trajectory missile.

The "exact point of entry of the rocket into the Earth's atmosphere" can only be determined within hours of return, Howard said, but the 18th Space Control Squadron is providing daily updates on the rocket's location via the Tracking website. of Space, writes CNN.

The good news is that debris returning to Earth generally poses very little threat to safety.

"The risk of harm or injury to someone is very small - not negligible, it can happen - but the risk of injury is very small," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist, told CNN this week. at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University.

The European Space Agency has envisioned a "danger zone" that includes "every part of the Earth's surface at coordinates about 41.5N and 41.5S latitude" - which includes almost America south of New York, all of Africa and Australia, parts of South Asia Japan and Europe Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.

" We expect it to enter somewhere between May 8 and 10. And in that two-day period, it goes around the world 30 times ," McDowell said.

"The facility is traveling at about 18,000 miles per hour. "

Still, the ocean remains the safest bet on where debris will fall, he said, because it occupies most of the Earth's surface. "If you want to bet where something will fall on Earth, bet on the Pacific because the Pacific is the largest part of the Earth," McDowell explained.

Despite recent efforts to better regulate and mitigate space debris, Earth's orbit is filled with hundreds of thousands of pieces of uncontrolled debris, most of which are less than 10 centimeters - about 4 inches. Objects constantly fall out of orbit, although most of them burn up in the Earth's atmosphere before they have a chance to cause an impact on the surface.

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