Among many possibilities of asteroid attacks that earth is vulnerable to, there’s a man-made threat approaching towards our dear planet soon.
China’s Tiangong 1 has been helping them build a permanent space station since its launch in 2011, but the scientists have now lost control over it. The reports suggest that the laboratory is all set to enter the earth atmosphere in few months and will meet a deadly end.
Didn’t China Know About It Earlier?
China was aware of it and had informed the United Nations in September 2016 that they have lost the control on their space station. In May this year, China again informed that the space station may enter the Earth atmosphere between Oct & April 2018.
Where exactly will it fall?
Scientists are feeling helpless and say they are unable to make any guess about the most vulnerable location on earth.
McDowell, an astrophysicist from Harvard University, tells the Guardian-
“You really can’t steer these things. Even a couple of days before it reenters, we probably won’t know better than six or seven hours, plus or minus, when it’s going to come down. Not knowing when it’s going to come down translates as not knowing where it’s going to come down.”
Is it going to be the 1st of its kind accident?
No. The Soviet Salyut 7 space station crashed to Earth in 1991, while NASA’s Skylab space station fell over Western Australia in 1979.
We hope, the scientists find a solution to overcome this danger soon.