A Soviet spatial vehicle of the aborted mission to Venus could run early on earth
A spatial vehicle of the Soviet era should land in Venus in 1970 Maybe in the first two weeks of May. Second experts in monitoring Waste of spaceIt is too early to know where this half -ton metal mass will fall or which part of it will survive on the return. The Dutch scientist Marco Langbroek provides that the bankrupt ship is affected on our planet Around 10 May. Langbroek calculates that will crash about 242 km/h, assuming that it remains intact.
“Although it is not exempt from risks, We shouldn’t worry too much“, Afurma Langbroek. El object eg relatively small And, although it is not broken, “the risk is similar to the random fall of a meteorite, of which many are produced per year. The risk of being achieved by lightning for a lifetime is greater”. The possibility that the space vehicle really affected someone or something is small, he added, but “it cannot be completely excluded”.
What were the Soviet missions in Venus?
The Soviet Union was launched 1972 The space vehicle known as Kosmos 482one in a series of Missions to Venus. But he never came out of the terrestrial orbit due to a Earn Missilistic. Most returned to Earth in less than a decade. But Langbroek and others believe that the landing capsule, a spherical object of about one meter in diameter, is filmed around all over the world in A Very elliptical orbit in the last 53 yearsgradually reducing your altitude.
It is possible that the ship, almost 500 kilos, Survive upon return. According to Langbroek, of the Technological University of Delft (Netherlands), it was built to resist a descent through the atmosphere of Venus, dense as carbon dioxide. Experts doubt that the parachute system works after so many years. The thermal shield could also be influenced after so much time in orbit.
Jonathan McDowell, from Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysician center, said it It would be better for the thermal shield to failwhich would have caused the burning of the ship during its immersion in the atmosphere. But If the shield he endures: “You are affected intact And you will have a half -ton metal object that falls from the sky. “The ship could be turned to any point between 51.7 degrees of north and south latitude, or north of London and Edmonton, in the Canadian province of AlbertMost likely it will end in a little ocean“, Desay Langbroek.
