Watch Out, Now The Japanese Rocket Falling to Earth

“Former Japanese H2A rocket was estimated to be a tube diameter of four meters long and about five meters are now being floated down,” said Deputy Science, Assessment, and Aerospace Information Lapan Prof Dr Thomas Djamaludin through his Facebook social networking account on Monday (13/2).

Deputy Thomas Djamaludin Lapan said space junk that will fall is just a bare metal and is expected to fall in an area between latitudes 83 LU – 83 LS on February 14 to 17.

“Keep alert, but not to worry, because most likely fall in the ocean,” he added.

Thomas said a number of areas in the country have been getting junk mail is the Russian rocket that fell in Gorontalo and in Lampung and Bengkulu’s China.

“Probably many more that fall in the region of Indonesia, but we do not know because it falls in the ocean or forest. Lapan continue to monitor it,” he said.

Currently, more Thomas, there are more than 6,000 rocket bodies in the form of space junk or a satellite or rocket fragments that are still floating in space.

H2A rocket is a Japanese-owned commercial rocket was first launched in 2001. Rocket launch was intended to spy on the activities of the Korean Peninsula