This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California

This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California

This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California





This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California






                    


What would you do if you saw this in your walnut garden?

                    Credit: Kings County Sheriff's Office




		A nut farmer in central California found a strange metal object in his orchard on October 13.

		He called the local sheriff's office, according to a KGET report. The sheriffs approached the Vandenberg Air Force Base, and experts said that the burned shell was probably a fuel tank of an Iridium communications satellite. In particular, it came from Iridium 70, which According to the satellite tracking site n2yo.com It left its orbit three days before, on October 10.

		Iridium 70 was part of a constellation of communications satellites that was launched for the first time in the late nineties. East, according to Astronautix.com, mounted a Delta 7920-10C rocket to space on May 17, 1998 along with the Iridium 72, 73, 74 and 75. (Incidentally, the launch site was the Vandenberg Air Force Base). Of those satellites, Only Iridium 73 is in orbit..

		Iridium 70 remained in low Earth orbit for 20 years, 4 months and 23 days; and for its operational lifetime, it admitted satellite telephone calls in the iridium global network. According to KGET, this is the first piece recovered from an Iridium satellite after reentry. As Live Science has previously reportedIt is very unlikely that any given orbiting object will throw significant debris on land, much less anywhere debris can be recognized.



	Originally published in Living science.



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