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The charred object was 4 × 3.5 feet in size, weighed nearly 90 pounds (41 kg) and was composed of carbon fiber dotted with metallic embeds. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] On the same day about 40 miles (64 km) away, another smaller piece of debris was found in Macon County, NC after it struck a homeowner's roof.
In low-earth orbit, objects can collide at around 23,000 miles an hour, enough for even the tiniest debris to crack the windows on the International Space Station. Nearly 30,000 objects are ...
Looming of the Canadian coast as seen from Rochester, New York, on April 16, 1871. Looming is the most noticeable and most often observed of these refraction phenomena. It is an abnormally large refraction of the object that increases the apparent elevation of the distant objects and sometimes allows an observer to see objects that are located below the horizon under normal conditions.
An emergency evacuation slide described as being “larger than a small car” dislodged from an airplane mid-air and landed in the backyard of a home in Chicago.. There were no reported injuries ...
The following is a list of NGC objects, that is objects listed in the New General Catalogue (NGC). It is one of the largest comprehensive astronomical catalogues for deep sky objects such as star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. List of NGC objects (1–1000) List of NGC objects (1001–2000) List of NGC objects (2001–3000)
Dispatchers last month received a 911 call from a Las Vegas area resident reporting extraterrestrial life in his backyard, about an hour after local police witnessed an object falling from the sky.
List of NGC objects (2001–3000) List of NGC objects (3001–4000) List of NGC objects (4001–5000) List of NGC objects (5001–6000) List of NGC objects (6001–7000) List of NGC objects (7001–7840) List of IC objects; List of Messier objects; List of Caldwell objects; List of Herschel 400 objects; List of Melotte objects; List of ...
2023 Hebei high-altitude object Shijiazhuang Airport, serving Hebei's provincial capital, was shuttered for two hours due to local airspace "being occupied" by an unidentified flying object. Government sources later stated that the object was a balloon but provided no further follow-up, leading to a drop in domestic Chinese stocks. [37]