As if Friday the 13th is not eerie enough, scientists warned that a junk from space is expected to crash into Earth on that day next month.
Scientists still do not know what the debris actually is but they are sure that it is man-made.
The scientists were able to spot the object, named as WT1190F, using a telescope earlier this month. Based on their observations, it is around three to six feet long and possibly hollow, which strongly suggests that it is artificial or man-made, according to Scientific American.
Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts theorized that the object may have come from a rocket that was used in a previous space mission. It may even date back to NASA's Apollo program.
The astrophysicist even described it as "a lost piece of space history that's come back to haunt us," according to Scientific American.
Through its speed and trajectory, Bill Gray of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab predicted that WT1190F will fall in the Indian Ocean near the southern portion of Sri Lanka at 6:20 UTC on November 13. Although scientists believe the object will most likely burn up before crashing, Gray strongly advises against going near that area on that day.
"I would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it," he said according to CBS San Francisco.
Hopefully, scientists are correct in saying that the object will disintegrate before splashing down in the ocean. But still, the idea of a mysterious object from space flying towards Earth will surely linger in the minds of those who are already paranoid about the upcoming Friday the 13th.
WT1190F is not the only object that the people of Earth should watch out for on a spooky day. As previously reported, a giant asteroid is also expected to fly by Earth on Halloween. According to NASA, this will be the first time an steroid will fly dangerously close to Earth in nine years.
The object, dubbed as 2015 TB145, will pass by Earth on October 31 and will be about 300,000 miles away. It is expected to have a maximum diameter of 600 meters and traveling at a speed of 78,000 miles per hour.
As CNN noted, it's definitely a good thing that it will miss Earth since given its size, a direct impact could cause serious destruction. To compare, the meteorite that detonated over Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013 was only 20 meters wide.
