Hi, List,
The "Space Ball" is a "metal-lined composite
overwrapped pressure vessel" --- you can Google
that phrase and find lots about them.
A blog in the Washington Post says we can
expect much more space junk like it to fall:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/mysterious-space-ball-drops-on-namibia--nothing-mysterious-about-it/2011/12/23/gIQAlaXiDP_blog.html
Here's a maker of space vehicle components
that shows one very similar to the Namibian
space ball:
http://www.psi-pci.com/Products.htm
However, such tanks are widely used on Earth
(and only on Earth) for gas storage, so maybe
it didn't fall that far (like, off the back of the
truck, once emptied).
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Count Deiro" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 10:27 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Holy Space Balls!
Hello List,
Space junk, but I like the mention of the "explosion" heard . Sonic
boom, obviously.
http://news.yahoo.com/space-ball-drops-namibia-133326985.html
Merry Christmas and on to Tucson!
Count Deiro
IMCA 3536
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