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A Soviet probe orbiting Earth since 1972 will soon reenter the planet's atmosphere
Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon atmospheric reentry.
Kosmos 482 separated into multiple pieces, some of which likely landed in New Zealand shortly after launch, according to a blog post by Marco Langbroek, a lecturer at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The Soviet craft was designed to stand up to the thick, hot atmosphere of Venus and has a parachute, though it's unclear if it is intact or will work after so many years. Langbroek estimates that the reentry could occur anywhere across a large swath of the globe stretching from Canada and Russia to the southern tip of South America.
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