An Enormous Piece Of Space Junk Will Crash Into The Ocean Tomorrow

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Nope, not even the cosmos is free from the curse of “Friday the 13th.” On November 13, 2015, a mysterious piece of space junk will re-enter the atmosphere and hit Earth.

The space debris – known as WT1190F or, more fittingly, WTF – is expected to land around 100 kilometers (62 miles) off the coast of Sri Lanka into the Indian Ocean. Scientists are still pretty stumped as to what precisely the object is, although the European Space Agency (ESA) thinks it might be a chunk of a rocket's body.