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I'm very curious how a FL man deduces that the object was ISS debris, vs random explosive, plane part, university pet project, etc and all other million things
by IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
I'm very curious how a FL man deduces that the object was ISS debris, vs random explosive, plane part, university pet project, etc and all other million things that could potentially caused the damage
- kube-system 3y agoI'm going to guess a couple of factors, just judging by the pictures on twitter: * it's small but went through a lot of stuff, so it must have been going pretty damn fast * it is metal but looks scorched on the outside. It looks like other parts you'd see at a museum that have gone through through reentry. * it's too uniform of a shape to be a meteorite
- rnewme 3y agoHe lives on Florida.
- nequo 3y agoNotably home to the Kennedy Space Center, although that’s on the other side of the peninsula.
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- LVB 3y agoA deorbit of 3T of ISS cargo is significant, and there was a decent amount of press in fairly mainstream news sites leading up to the re-entry. It doesn't seem that unlikely that he, or someone he knows, had heard about it and connected the dots.