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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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Space Debris falls in Kenya: Giant 500 kg 'red-hot object' mysteriously falls from sky in kenya - Watch video
Kenyan officials said Wednesday they were looking into metal bits suspected to be from a rocket that fell in the country's north, according to news agency AFP.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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 ...
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Space debris weighing over 1,000 pounds reportedly crashes into village in Kenya
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
The agency said no one was injured, and that the space debris poses no immediate risk. Maj. Alois Were, an officer with the Kenya Space Agency, told Citizen TV, a Kenyan news station, that the ...