Launched in 1972, Kosmos 482 is expected to fall back to Earth next week. A broken and inactive Soviet satellite is expected to fall back to Earth next week, raising concerns from space experts that it could potentially hit the planet’s surface with deadly results. The New York Post reported: “The unit ‘might well survive Earth atmosphere entry and hit the ground’, warned British-American astronomer Jonathan McDowell in a blog post. ‘In which case, I expect it’ll have the usual one-in-several-thousand chance of hitting someone’. Launched in March 1972 by the USSR, the Kosmos 482 probe was dispatched to gather data from Venus’ inhospitable surface. However, due to a malfunction with one of the rocket boosters, the intergalactic recon machine was left stranded in Earth’s…
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