A car-sized German satellite expected to fall to Earth in a few days. However, it is not known where the satellite pieces would land.
X-ray observatory ROSAT name is expected to fall to Earth between 20 and 25 October with a speed of about 28,000 kilometers per hour. German Aerospace Centre (DLR) deliver it in a statement.
"Final assessment showed that more than 30 individual pieces weighing a total of 1.6 tons will reach the surface of the Earth," says DLR on its website.
"The timing and location of re-entry (the satellite debris) can not be predicted with certainty," the statement said, adding that the uncertainty caused by fluctuations in solar activity.
The satellite may enter the atmosphere in three days before or after the range time, DLR said, stressing that the danger to humans is very small.
Last month, NASA said, a U.S. satellite about the size of a bus that slid unexpectedly to Earth across North Africa and the Atlantic before it crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. There were no reports of damage when the existence or the Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) with a weight of six tons of it fell to Earth.
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