>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. On Friday, >another >ball a yard wide plummeted from the sky 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. Am I correct in assuming that the Delta rocket exploded BEFORE entering the Earth's atmosphere? I don't think that a rocket could break up in the atmosphere, and one piece land at time index 0, and another piece orbit right in the Earth's atmosphere for an entire day, before landing. ================================================================ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com Stay up-to-date on all events in space! Visit http://www.geocities.com/tlj18_99/ Updated at least once per day! ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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