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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-Fin

by 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.