Weird Space Junk Falls to Earth on Friday the 13th: Watch It Online

An unknown space object will crash through Earth's atmosphere Friday morning (Nov. 13) — and a Slooh webcast will show the first observations live after the object re-enters off the coast of Sri Lanka. The bizarre object WT1190F has been orbiting Earth for years on an elliptical path and is likely a piece of a rocket body a few meters in diameter, European Space Agency (ESA) officials said in a statement. It will hit Earth's atmosphere at 1:19 a.m. EST (0619 GMT) Friday morning, and s