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Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof

Posted by samzenpus on from the return-to-sender dept.

PolygamousRanchKid writes "A Siberian resident miraculously escaped serious injury or even death when a fragment of a Russian communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house. A Meridian satellite that was launched Friday from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia on board a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket crashed near the Siberian city of Tobolsk minutes after lift-off. A titanium ball of about five kg fell on to the roof of a house in Ordyn district."

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  1. There is an important piece of information missing by lsh123 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The house is located on Cosmonauts Street (no, this is not a joke)