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Space junk rains down around airplane

The Sydney Morning Herald has a wild story today about flaming pieces of space debris narrowly missing a New Zealand-bound aircraft on Tuesday.

Originally, reports indicated that the fiery pieces were the remains of a rubbish-filled Russian Progress cargo ship that left the International Space Station at 1811 GMT on Tuesday (see image) and entered guild wars 2 gold the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean hours later. But now questions have arisen over whether the timing of the Progress re-entry would have coincided with the aircraft's flight.

The pilot of a Lan Chile Airbus A340, which was travelling between Santiago, Chile, and Auckland, New Zealand, wow gear notified air traffic controllers at Auckland Oceanic Centre after seeing flaming space junk hurtling across the sky just five nautical miles in front of and behind his plane about 10pm.

According to a plane wow po spotter, who was tuning into a high frequency radio broadcast at the time, the pilot "reported that the rumbling noise from the space debris could be heard over the noise of the aircraft.

"He described he saw a piece of debris lighting up as it re-entered [the earth's atmosphere],He was wow gold one very worried pilot, as you would imagine,

I, for one, would like to see the transcript of that conversation.

I wonder if this was just a few meteors, an average bit of space junk or possibly even that trash-filled cargo ship. What do you think?

Kelly Young, Online reporter (Image: NASA TV)

Labels: airplane, debris, Progress, space junk

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Smirk. Doesn't matter what I think. Where's the plot of the Progress' orbit? Was it anywhere near or at the other side of the planet? I'm sure at least the US DoD has the details.

By Anonymous on March 29, 2007 1:57 PM

So the report comes from a plane spotter who happened to be tuning in on the right frequency at the right time. hmmmm call me suspicious but I see urban myth in the forming here. Unless we see first hand accounts or confirmation from radar images then this goes in the recycle bin with all the other "chance in a million" stories

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