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General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Earth Sciences => Topic started by: mackbig on December 23, 2011, 07:03:24 AM
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....well one big ball, that fell from space.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/22/mysterious-metal-ball-from-space-falls-in-namibia/?hpt=hp_c2
Andrew
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....well one big ball, that fell from space.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/22/mysterious-metal-ball-from-space-falls-in-namibia/?hpt=hp_c2
Andrew
Not that I would ever say something like "CNN should stop even pretending to employ journalists", but it's clearly a Soyuz helium tank: http://fernlea.tripod.com/tank.html Look at pictures near the bottom, in particular.
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Not that I would ever say something like "CNN should stop even pretending to employ journalists", but it's clearly a Soyuz helium tank: http://fernlea.tripod.com/tank.html Look at pictures near the bottom, in particular.
Could be, but NASA and the ESA use similar vessels as well.
Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wstf/laboratories/composite/index.html)