The Sri Lanka Planetarium announced that a special programme is in place to observe and monitor the space debris which is expected to crash into the Southern Seas of the country on the morning of Friday, November 13.
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Director of the Sri Lanka Planetarium Priyanka Koralagama said that the object will be observed from Tangalle.
The unknown object was rediscovered by astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey, based at the University of Arizona earlier this month.
Analysts studying WT1190F have ruled out the object being a space rock and say it could be a hollow shell belonging to a rocket.
A huge piece of space junk will come crashing down to Earth over the weekend.
That harkens back to the reentry of the Skylab space station, an event that became a media sensation back in 1979.
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In fact, the encounter comes just a few weeks after a newly spotted asteroid, traveling 78,000 miles an hour, is expected to zip past Earth this Friday and Saturday at a distance of about 300,000 miles. However, the uncertainty has also sent UFO chasers and alien hunters into meltdown, amid claims it could be part of a “real alien craft” about the crash to Earth. Though the reentry will happen during daylight, there is a chance that people may witness it falling (it would look like a bright meteor).In April, a failed Russian Progress rocket that was destined for the worldwide Space Station failed to reach proper altitude and fell back to Earth, with most of it believed to have burned up over the Pacific Ocean. “Unless we have millions of pounds worth of deep-sea investigating equipment it is extremely unlikely we will ever discover what this UFO called “WTF” actually is!”
