Scientists said a strange piece of space junk that was noticed hurtling towards Earth around 30 days back splashed down in the Indian Ocean yesterday morning. According to NASA, the space debris, dubbed WT1190F, entered the atmosphere of the Earth, landing off the coast of Sri Lanka.

The object was first spotted on October 3 by scientists and since then they have been tracking the object’s movements so that they could predict when and where it would hit.

NASA spokeswoman Laura Castillo told ABC News today that the object was never a risk for anybody on Earth due to its small size. Castillo said that it landed in the Indian Ocean roughly 50 miles off the coast of Sri Lanka at about 1:15 a.m. Eastern time yesterday.

Though nobody has any idea about the exact nature of the object and will be revealed very soon, Castillo mentioned that the object was believed to be ‘low-density’ man-made object. Castillo said, “So that would suggest something like panel as opposed to something round or denser”. While talking about the size, the spokeswoman said that it was believed to be about 3 to 6 feet long.

Speaking to ABC News, Detlef Koschny, head of the European Space Agency's Near Earth Object office, said they have found that the object was definitely ‘something artificial’ as opposed to be an organic part of matter.

He added that it was probably a rocket’s upper stage that had gone to the moon a long time back, but they still don’t really know.