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Photos show the 1,000 pounds of space debris that crash landed in Kenya. It's unclear who it belongs to.
At about 3 p.m. local time, a large metallic ring weighing about 1,100 pounds and measuring 8 feet in diameter crash-landed in the village, the Kenya Space Agency said in a statement. The agency said ...
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Kenya investigates giant piece of space debris that crash landed in a village
A large metallic ring that fell from the skies and crashed into a village in southern Kenya this week is space debris from a launch rocket, according to the country's space agency. The object — ...
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A Half-Ton Piece of Space Junk Falls Onto a Village in Kenya
The object turned out to be space debris — junk left over from six decades of space exploration and a growing number of commercial launches, the Kenya Space Agency said Wednesday. It identified ...
New York Post20d
Kenya investigating mysterious fallen space debris
The issue of space trash has risen in tandem with increased spatial traffic, the Kenya Space Agency (KSA ... “secured the area and retrieved the debris, which is now under the agency’s ...
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Expert Not Convinced Mysterious, 8-Foot Ring of "Space Junk" in Kenya Actually Came from Space
The Kenya Space Agency identified a "red-hot" eight-foot metal ring as a piece of space junk. Experts are still torn about ...
How a freak space junk crash baffled residents and sparked concern
The KSA director general said it was lucky that no significant damage was done when the object hurtled to Earth. "The ...
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Over 1,000 pounds of space debris crash in south Kenya village
Kenya – Investigations are ongoing as southern Kenya experienced falling debris from the sky around 3 p.m. on Monday. Fragments of space debris fell within a village in Makueni County ...
A glowing ring of metal fell to Earth, and no one has any idea what it is
It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a "glowing ring of metal" that fell from the sky and crashed ...
Space.com21d
Space debris crash in Kenya village believed to be from leftover rocket hardware
Officials with the Kenya Space Agency (KSA ... weighing some 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms), is actually a piece of space debris, rocket leftovers that came crashing down, reportedly within the ...
Remember That Metal Ring That Fell From the Sky? We Still Don’t Know Where It Came From
It’s been two weeks since a chunky metal ring crashed onto a village in Kenya, but authorities are still unable to pinpoint where it came from. The fallen object raises concern over how hard it is to ...
Crashed metal ring in Kenya: origin of space debris still a mystery
Shortly before the turn of the year, a 500-kilogram metal ring crashed in Kenya, apparently from outer space. It is still ...
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Kenya investigating fallen space debris
Kenya Space Agency (KSA ... Past examples of manmade human space debris hitting Earth include part of a SpaceX Dragon capsule landing on an Australian sheep farm in 2022. And earlier this year ...