Making mistakes is human.

You are clumsy, you throw your phone all the time, you trip when you go up stairs, you lose water on the old path, don't worry, don't feel bad because even the most intelligent, most capable and most trained humans have distractions and hands of butter, I mean astronauts. They are the crème de la crème, literally the fittest specimens of our species and yet when they leave the space station they lose tools and equipment valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars, just as you lost your mother's topper and I lost my wallet.

During a spacewalk a few days ago a bag of tools was lost in orbit and now it is a new “satellite” that can be seen from Earth with binoculars, but it is not the first that astronauts had their clumsiest moment losing things in the space. When astronauts and cosmonauts leave the international space station for maintenance, they use ropes and hooks all the time to prevent themselves or their tools from floating away. On November 2, astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara left the international space station to replace a piece of one of the solar panels so that they can rotate and orient themselves to receive the most sunlight, to generate the electricity that The station needs that's what they were in when Jasmine put the tool bag aside without noticing that it wasn't attached to anything.

That was the last time they saw her, but not her station companion, astronaut Satoshi Furukawa took a photo of her through the station window while she was floating alone in space over the Pacific Ocean, that ugly moment is also captured in the They realize that the bag was no longer with them. Curiously, despite being a fairly small object, its white color reflects sunlight very intensely, so from Earth it can be seen as a magnitude 6 object. It cannot be seen with the naked eye like the space station, but in certain cases At times of the day when the sky is dark and sunlight illuminates objects in orbit, that is, a little before sunrise or a little after sunset, the tool bag can be seen with binoculars.

For several weeks it will pass a few minutes before the international space station, to know when it will pass by your house you can search for your location on the NASA site spotthestation.nasa.gov, there it tells you what it will appear on the sky the international space station, for how many minutes it will be visible and what path it will follow in the sky. For example, in this location the best time to see the station will be November 15, it will be the best time because as it passes it will reach 60 degrees, if you get a sighting of 90 degrees it is the best opportunity to see because it is the senit, just above, where there is not as much air and pollution between you and the object you are observing. This makes things in the sky look clearer, it tells me that it will appear first in the southwest and will cross the sky until it reaches 60 degrees and then disappear in the northeast, so if I wanted to see the lost tool bag I would start looking. . the sky with binoculars from about 10 or 15 minutes before 6:19 pm, which is the time the space station will appear in That location.

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