Cosmos 482 (Venera 9) Probe Near future Reentry

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Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a Cent…

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Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 plunges to Earth after 53 years in orbit

Russia's space agency says the Kosmos 482 lander has made an uncontrolled re-entry to Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

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Al-Jazeera (The Peninsula) has a short news article about Cosmos 482's splashdown:

50 years after a Soviet spacecraft took off to explore Venus, it has crashed back down to Earth.It’s a rare event that’s been tracked by amateur astronomers.