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Massive piece of space junk crashes into village in Kenya — and officials still have no idea where it came from
A massive piece of space junk recently smashed into a village in Kenya. The 1,100-pound (500 kilograms) ring of metal likely came from a rocket, though its exact origins are still unknown ...
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Space debris weighing over 1,000 pounds crashes into Kenya village
Kenya Space Agency (KSA) said the object, a metallic ring roughly 8 feet in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds, crashed into Mukuku village, in Makueni county, on December 30 at around 3:00 ...
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Space debris crash in Kenya village believed to be from leftover rocket hardware
Officials with the Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia have reported that a large metallic ring fell from the sky on Dec. 30 , crashing "red-hot" into Mukuku village, in Makueni county ...
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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.
On Wednesday, Mukuku Village in Kenya got an unexpected visitor from space. At about 3 p.m. local time, a large metallic ring weighing about 1,100 pounds and measuring 8 feet in diameter crash ...
Kenya investigates space junk that fell on village
Experts from Kenya's space agency are investigating a 500kg metal ring that crashed to Earth on Monday. It fell on Mukuku village, 50km (31 miles) south-east of the capital, Nairobi - no-one was ...