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 Metal balls fall on South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - For a while, it seemed as if some
strange meteorological phenomenon was hitting South Africa. A metal
ball fell from the sky Thursday onto a farm near Worcester, 45 miles
east of Cape Town, leaving an 8-inch dent in the ground. Another ball
a yard wide plummeted from the sky Friday onto a farm in Durbanville,
just outside Cape Town. "We heard the sound of crackling thunder, yet
there were no clouds," said Philip Schew, a tenant farmer near
Worcester. NASA scientists said the balls were garbage from a Delta
rocket launched in 1996. The balls had been expected to land
somewhere in southern Africa. Nick Johnson, who is in charge of
orbital debris for NASA, said space garbage re-enters the Earth's
atmosphere almost every day, landing mostly in the ocean. See
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