The Soviet probe Cosmos 482 has to crash on earth in space after 53 years, but nobody knows where

The Soviet probe Cosmos 482 will crash on the planet Earth 52 years after its departure. The European Center for Heaven’s Supervisory Operations is currently the room. The probe is expected to arrive on earth this Saturday, May 10th, but at the moment we do not know the exact time or its exact place.

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Cosmos 482, launched by the USSR in 1972, aimed to gather Venus. Due to a technical problem, however, it never managed to achieve their goal. This probe continued to hike around the terrestrial orbit.

Discovered by German radars

With a weight of almost 500 kg and Titan, this probe consists of “acceleration, warmth and extreme pressure from a return to the Venusian atmosphere,” explains in a press release from the European EU MST (Space monitoring and persecution), responsible for monitoring the space and monitoring objects in orbit.

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German radars discovered the probe at 8 a.m., but it is still impossible to predict the place where the probe should crash. On planetary scale, “Most of the area in which the probe can fall consists of uninhabited oceans or land,” the EU MST assures.

The area over which the probe could return to earth is between 52 degrees north width and 52 degrees south of the width, a strip that extends from southern Ireland to the southern tip of Argentina.