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“#\u2018Very high risk\u2019 defunct Russian satellite and Chinese rocket body will collide<\/strong>”
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\n Experts believe a defunct Russian satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket could smash into each other high above the earth on Thursday, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Satellite-tracking company LeoLabs on Wednesday said the defunct objects could come within 39 feet of each other and that there was a 10 percent chance that they could still collide around 8:56 p.m. ET. The company deemed the potential crash to be a \u201cvery high risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis event continues to be very high risk and will likely stay this way through the time of closest app<\/a>roach,\u201d LeoLabs tweeted.<\/p>\n

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said<\/a> the two objects were a defunct Soviet navigation satellite called Parus [Kosmos 2004] that launched in 1989 and a Chinese rocket stage.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday, the objects \u2014 with a mass of roughly three metric tons \u2014 were in low-Earth orbit at an altitude of around 615 miles, LeoLabs said.<\/p>\n

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1\/ This event continues to be very high risk and will likely stay this way through the time of closest approach. Our system generates new conjunction reports 6-8x per day on this event with new observation data each time. pic.twitter.com\/d3tRbcV2P0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 LeoLabs, Inc. (@LeoLabs_Space) October 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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We are monitoring a very high risk conjunction between two large defunct objects in LEO. Multiple data points show miss distance <25m and Pc between 1% and 20%. Combined mass of both objects is ~2,800kg.<\/p>\n

Object 1: 19826
Object 2: 36123
TCA: Oct 16 00:56UTC
Event altitude: 991km pic.twitter.com\/6yWDx7bziw<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 LeoLabs, Inc. (@LeoLabs_Space) October 13, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Because the objects are located high above the ground, they don\u2019t pose a risk to anyone on earth. However, a crash could cause more debris to orbit the earth, which could increase the risk of future collisions.<\/p>\n

The debris could also threaten astronauts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this turns into a collision, it\u2019s probably thousands to tens of thousands of new pieces of debris that is going to cause a headache for any satellite that\u2019s going out into upper low-Earth orbit, or even beyond,\u201d said Dan Ceperley, the CEO of LeoLabs, according to Business Insider.<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s maybe a much bigger problem than a lot of people realize.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of February this year, there are 128 million debris objects in orbit, according to the European Space Agency. Roughly 34,000 of those objects are greater than 10 cm.\n <\/p><\/div>\n