'Flaming debris' nearly hits jet

Source: BBC

The pilots of a Chilean passenger jet reported seeing flaming debris fall past their aircraft as it approached the airport at Auckland, New Zealand.

Lan airline said the captain "made visual contact with incandescent fragments several kilometres away".

New Zealand and Australian media suggested the debris was from a Russian satellite expected to enter the atmosphere later in the day.

But the US space agency Nasa said it was more likely to have been meteors.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6505143.stm

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That could make one a bit jumpy.

"An orbital debris expert at Nasa told Associated Press news agency that he had checked with the Russians and that their vessel - a spacecraft resupplying the International Space Station - had fired its re-entry rockets 12 hours <b>after</b> the Chileans reported the near miss."

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(SomaliNet) A baffling device which resembles a satellite or Unidentified Flying Object (U.F.O) has landed in a rural area close to Buulo-Burde town, 220km north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu, eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday.

Villagers report that the device had fallen in a remote jungle area, some 40km north of Bulo-Burde, killing one camel. No experts have reached there to find out exactly what the object is.

The unknown object is sitting on an area of one 100 meter square as people grew more concern over the device that it might explode or contaminate the area.

The device is said to be intact and not broken as it gives alarming signals. No one knows where the satellite-like device had come from.

“In the evening of last Wednesday, a large device flew over us and some time later, we heard a big sound, BAM” said Ilyas Ali, a villager who lives nearby where this large device has fallen.

Ilyas said in the daylight it glitters and but in the nighttime, it turns lights and speaks a strange language which can’t be understood by the villagers.

The news of the fallen device was too late because of the remote area it landed and poor communication. Details are emerging in the coming days.

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It kinda sounds like Marvin the paranoid android doesn't it?

Don't forget that there is a Hexagon on Saturn as well.

Looks like it could be down to fluid dynamics... Some scientists had got polygons to form in spinning water a few years before Saturn's north pole was fully re-imaged....

http://www.physorg.com/news66924222.html

http://dcwww.fysik.dtu.dk/~tbohr/RotatingPolygon/

it seemed to be the first thing that popped into my mind. I was hoping I hadn't aged myself terribly and someone else would understand.