Latest News - COPV Space Ball Namibia: COPV Metallic Space Ball Falls To Earth In Namibia

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COPV Space Ball Namibia: COPV Metallic Space Ball Falls To Earth In Namibia Posted: 22 Dec 2011 11:44 PM PST Around mid-November, administration in Namibia were notified to the breakthrough of a depression sphere that had evidently smashed into to Earth from space. Eyewitnesses described hearing a sequence of blasts a couple of days before the extraterrestrial find. The “space ball” was accordingly retrieved beside a town in the north of the African territory, 480 miles from the capital Windhoek. The secret sphere has a diameter of 35 centimeters (14 inches), a uneven exterior and seems to comprise of “two equal half welded together,” policeman forensics controller Paul Ludik told the AFP report agency. Ludik furthermore recounted the object as being made of a “metal alloy renowned to man,” weighing in at six kilograms (13 pounds). “It is not an explosive apparatus, but rather depression, but we had to enquire all this first,” he added. Baffled, the Namibian policeman have asked to NASA and the European Space Agency for an explanation. So what could it be? Assuming it does begin from space, is it a constituent from a peak mystery space weapon? Space hopper? Or could the interpretation be a little more… alien? Sadly, we won’t be glimpsing the Men In Black soaring to Windhoek any time soon. This depression sphere will directly hit a chord with any space expert. Exhibit A examines like a dusty “Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel” (or COPV for short) and whereas it did fall from orbit, it’s easily an exotic-looking chunk of space junk. COPVs have a kind of space submissions, but they all supply the identical function — they shop gases under force in a space environment. What’s more, to sustain the high force inside the COPV, they are made of very strong material, often covered in carbon fiber or Kevlar. This is why COPVs can stay intact on reentry. COPV Metallic Space Ball Earlier Found In Australia & Brazil Similar spheres have been found out in other positions round the planet. In 2008, for demonstration, discovery described on the breakthrough of a COPV in Brazilian farmland. That object too ignited awe and mystery. Right round the identical time, a grower from Australia went public on his 2007 find — another bashed-up COPV in the Aussie Outback. Earlier this year, the critical Texas drought revealed space debris at the base of a lake — a fuel container from Space Shuttle Columbia. The shuttle smashed up on reentry in 2003, murdering all seven astronauts on board. Debris from the catastrophe rained down on the state, encompassing the shuttle’s COPVs. So what of the Namibian find? It appears probable that this well-preserved COPV could have began from any space objective that needs the use of COPVs, so we’ll have to delay and glimpse what NASA or the ESA states about which spacecraft it came from. Related posts: Space Junk NASA: NASA Not Sure Where Space Junk Will Drop On Earth ROSAT Crashing On Earth: German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) To Crash On Earth From 21 Oct To 25 Oct 2011 China Space Station Tiangong-1: China Launched Space Station Tiangong-1 Experimental Module Ghost Spiral In Space: Ghostly Spiral Discovered In Space May Created By Aliens Space Shuttle Landing: Space Shuttle Discovery To Landing in Florida UARS Landed On Earth: UARS Satellite Landed On Earth In Canada, Not Exact SpaceShipTwo: Virgin Galactic SpaceshipTwo Space Tour Cost $2 Million Per Seat New Earth Kepler-21B: New Earth-Sized Planet Kepler-21B Discovered 352 Light-Years Away New Planet Earth Kepler-22b: NASA Confirms Another Planet Earth Kepler-22b Could Hold Life ROSAT Falling Back To Earth: German ROSAT Satellite Falling Back To Earth

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