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Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming
Harmonious Botch wrote in with a CNN story that opens: "A spent Russian booster rocket re-entered the atmosphere Thursday over Colorado and Wyoming, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said.
NORAD spokesman Sean Kelly said the agency was trying to confirm a report that a piece of the rocket may have hit the ground near Riverton, Wyoming, at about 6 a.m.
Kelly said military personnel had not yet reached the scene.
No damage was reported and the debris was not believed to be hazardous, NORAD said.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing flaming objects in the sky at the time the rocket was re-entering, Kelly said."
Here is video taken by a local news crew this morning: ABC 7 Note: They use an embedded Windows Media Player.
From Spaceweather.com
Something from space disintegrated over Denver, Colorado, this morning around 6:20 am MST (1320 UT). Witnesses describe it as "brilliant, slow, twinkling, sparkly and full of rainbow colors." It was not a meteor. The fireball was the decaying body of a Soyuz U rocket that launched the French COROT space telescope on Dec. 27th. The re-entry caused no damage on the ground--just a beautiful display in the sky.
Link. This story could use a visual. Clearly, as opposed to what the poster of the video would like us to think, it is not a UFO.
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
I think the key word is "hits," as opposed to "falls in," or "lands in."
If you shoot an arrow, and the arrow "hits" the apple, you worry that something might have happened to the apple.
If you shoot an arrow, and it "lands in" the forest... -- You're probably not too concerned for the forest.
Maybe I'm just a stickler. -- I think it could be easily misunderstood, though.