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Rock found in backyard came from space station

• TeMPOraL 13y ago
  God-dammit, why couldn't they put a photo of the rock in the article? Maybe even instead of that video, which is mostly useless.
  • mdturnerphys 13y ago
    http://d6673sr63mbv7.cloudfront.net/archive/x1912985327/g000258000000000000d74fc0c606bc1574c7dc15dedcd5e3952fe4b2f8.jpg http://d6673sr63mbv7.cloudfront.net/archive/x1912985327/g000... (via http://www.eagletribune.com/latestnews/x1912985329/NASA-Amesbury-rock-came-from-Soviet-spacecraft http://www.eagletribune.com/latestnews/x1912985329/NASA-Ames...)
• Luc 13y ago
  This article mentions that the NASA engineer determined it to be ballast from MIR or a Progress resupply ship: http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_06_14/US-Man-Finds-Russian-Space-Junk-in-Massachusetts-8390/ http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_06_14/US-Man-Finds-Russian-... That's interesting! I didn't know spacecraft used ballast - I guess to tune the centre of gravity.
  • mdturnerphys 13y ago
    Nice find. I was disappointed that the article I posted and another I found didn't say what the object actually was.
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• lostlogin 13y ago
  That search box on the site looks strangely familiar...