A chunk of space debris orbiting the earth will crash back onto our planet Nov. 13, according to astronomers.

Named , the floating clutter was detected by the Catalina Sky Survey, a program focused on discovering asteroids and comets close to the earth,and is likely hollow, reports the European Space Agency (ESA).

Astronomers have been frenzied over WT1190F’s arrival because it gives them a rare opportunity to , Gizmodo reports. It also provides a chance to test a coordinated network they’ve established for when more dangerous space objects come close to Earth.

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According to independent astronomy software developer Bill Gray, scientists were initially confused by the space trash, but they were able to by collecting more observations and looking at previous telescope archives.

Gray’s calculations estimate that WT1190F will hit the Earth at 6:20 UTC, falling about . Much if not all of it will burn up in the atmosphere, but “I would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it,” said Gray.

WT1190F could be composed of or a spent rocket stage. There’s also the possibility that the debris dates back decades, maybe even to the Apollo era. Jonathan McDowell, astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, referred to it as “a lost piece of space history that’s come back to haunt us.”

An observing campaign is now taking shape to follow the object as it dives through Earth’s atmosphere, says Gerhard Drolshagen, co-manager of the European Space Agency’s Near-Earth Object office in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

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Drolshagen plans to get spectral information on WT1190F, which may help identify it. He also hopes to . However, that may be the end of concerted efforts to study space debris.

Unlike near-Earth asteroids, space debris that flies well away from the planet has or attention.

“There is no official, funded effort to do tracking of deep-Earth orbits the way we track low-Earth orbit,” said McDowell. “I think that has to change”.

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