Space debris expected to provide spectacular show on November 13 [1]

An unusual object discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in 2013 is expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere on November 13, 2015. The object, suspected to be of man-made origin, most likely a rocket body, will put on a spectacular show while passing through the atmosphere before falling into the ocean off the Sri Lanka coast, according to European Space Agency's (ESA) Near Earth Object Coordination Center (NEOCC) in Italy.

The discovered object was first observed by the Catalina Sky Survey in 2013, and has been seen on a few occasions since. It was named WT1190F and is orbiting Earth with a period of 3 weeks in a highly eccentric orbit. The object is of a low density when compared to density values of solid rock bodies, and is most likely a discarded rocket body, according to ESA's experts [2].