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It was not known where the metal had come from but it seemed likely that it was "space debris", investigators said.
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First incident in 5 years in Britain...
Seems like increasingly bad odds.
She was walking all alone
Down the street in the alley
Her name was sally
She never saw it
When she was hit by space junk
If I was a rich bastard I'd collect space debris just to drop it out of an airplane over highly unlikely places. Creationist speaking at the local university? Drop a space rock onto the podium just to make it look like God wants to shut the guy up.
Another good reason to stay the Hell away from Hull!
Hell of a way to lose a coffee table.
Aren't these things hot when they land?
wow I live in Hull also, very weird
i was in hull today didn't hear anything about it until i got home. also hull isnt that bad. there are worse places in the world, Baghdad would be a close example. i wonder if they get to keep it. would be pretty cool table ornament.
Actually, objects from space, whether natural (meteorites) or man-made would be COLD. Space is very cold, and the very brief passage through the air only heats a thin layer on the outside. Fresh meteorites are too cold to handle.
Must have cost a hell of a lot of money to put a lump of metal that heavy in space, so there must have been a very good reason to do it. I wonder what it did?
This piece of 'junk looks amazingly regular and relative unharmed by the heat that it would have been exposed to in (re)entry it the atmosphere. Has anyone had the idea to measure the radiation that (could) be emitted by this object?
Neuron: you got a source for that?
It's a turtle without a shell.
no one really knows what the temperature of a freshly fallen meteorite is. http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=215
certain situations lend credibility to the hot hypothesis in some scenarios and others to the cold. simply claiming they're cold "because space is cold" though, is a ridiculous oversimplification. the noonday surface of the moon is HOT at >100C.
Looks more like something thrown over the fence from a disgruntled neighbour...
It looks like aluminium. A common space material. It is pretty thick which means it is either a heat shield, or more likely a piece of something like a whipple-bumper or more likely a monolith shield. Could be a piece from a pressurized hydrazine tank, but those aren't usually that thick.