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Title: Big Balls....
Post by: mackbig on December 23, 2011, 07:03:24 AM
....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
Title: Re: Big Balls....
Post by: mulveyr on December 23, 2011, 08:44:44 AM
....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.

Title: Re: Big Balls....
Post by: neondesert on December 24, 2011, 02:40:43 PM
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)