A satellite fell to Earth on Friday evening

In an unexpected event, a satellite collided with the Earth on Friday evening, August 29, 2020 AD, where the object was observed starting on August 25, 2020 AD, by the NASA program to monitor celestial bodies, which pose a threat to Earth called "Catalina". Give this mysterious object the name C1979M1, and it is classified as a crashing object. But experts soon discovering celestial bodies near the Earth, that this object is in fact a satellite, launched by the United States in 1964, with the aim of studying the atmosphere and geomagnetism, and it is called Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO1).

The satellite was orbiting the Earth in a very elliptical orbit, ranging between 281 km and 149,000 km, and it stopped working in 1971. With the passage of time, its orbit changed its orbit, now between just 117 km and 134,000 km. It is about the size of a bus, and it weighs 487 kg.

The emergence and fall of this satellite differs from the rest of the satellites in several things: The first is that its apparent movement in the sky is very slow. The satellites appear in the sky for only a few minutes, and orbit around the Earth several times per day, but this satellite now remains above the horizon. Several hours, and orbits the Earth once every two days! Also, this fall is not exactly due to its constant friction with the Earth's atmosphere, which causes its orbit to decrease and eventually fall, but rather it is closer to a direct collision with the Earth, and astronomical calculations indicate that the collision occurred yesterday evening, Friday August 29, at 20:43 , Greenwich Mean Time, and the satellite fell far from us in the Pacific Ocean, near the island of Tahiti in the French Polynesian islands. The satellite now shines from Fate 15, so it can only be seen by large telescopes, and it will remain faint until its fall, to appear then as a bright fireball that is divided into several parts, and usually burns and most parts of the satellite fade away when it burns in the Earth's atmosphere, and very little of it reaches Therefore, this fall is not expected to pose any danger to the ground, especially because of its fall in a remote location in the ocean.

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