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    A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency.

    The hollow ball with a circumference of 1.1 metres was found near a village in the north of the country some 750 kilometres from the capital Windhoek, according to police forensics director Paul Ludik.

    Locals had heard several small explosions a few days beforehand, he said.

    With a diameter of 35 centimetres, the ball has a rough surface and appears to consist of "two halves welded together".

    It was made of a "metal alloy known to man" and weighed six kilogrammes, said Ludik.

    It was found 18 metres from its landing spot, a hole 33 centimetres deep and 3.8 meters wide.

    Several such balls have dropped in southern Africa, Australia and Latin America in the past twenty years, authorities found in an Internet search.

    The sphere was discovered mid-November, but authorities first did tests before announcing the find.

    Police deputy inspector general Vilho Hifindaka concluded the sphere did not pose any danger.

    "It is not an explosive device, but rather hollow, but we had to investigate all this first," he said.


    http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/839...ops-on-namibia


    Interesting stuff

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    Richard Hoagland gave this comment on the above photo. "Titanium helium pressurization tank ... from either a reentering booster or defunct spacecraft." T ome that would mean more structure to the thing in order to fill and release gas. The article doesn't point out anything like that, but it makes sense from what we can see. I find it puzzleing that they say it has been analyzed, and it is made of an alloy known to man without stating it.

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    BALLAST

    Well it stands to reason if they're shipping all that Gold off world.
    Sapere aude

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    yes john.. it does not tell what material it is.. here are some other sites on it..
    Must be space junk of something that has been up there..

    http://www.space.com/14028-namibia-s...al-debris.html
    Locals apparently heard several small explosions a few days before the ball was found. Similar spheres have also been found in Australia and Central America over the last two decades, local authorities said.

    Quite a bit of space junk has rained from the sky this year. In September, for example, NASA's defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) — a 6.5-ton craft that monitored climate from 1991 until 2005 — plunged into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

    Just a month later, Germany's 2.7-ton Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) fell to Earth over the Indian Ocean. Nobody on the ground was injured by either satellite crash.

    An even bigger spacecraft will plummet to Earth soon. Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt Mars probe got stuck in Earth orbit shortly after its Nov. 8 launch, and it's been circling lower and lower ever since. Most experts predict the 14.5-ton spacecraft will come crashing down by mid-January

    http://frstephensmuts.wordpress.com/...c-space-balls/

    a decent pic on this site..

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