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Wed, 03 May 2000 00:00
Metal balls fall on South Africa
Author: Skeptix
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 00:00
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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 http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566197197-51c
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