Space Agency Solves Mystery of the Fireball That Lit Up the Sky
The spectacular fireball was "likely the remnants of a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket re-entering the Earth's atmosphere," according to the Australian Space Agency.
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The spectacular fireball was "likely the remnants of a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket re-entering the Earth's atmosphere," according to the Australian Space Agency.
The huge metal cylinder found on a beach in Western Australia has now been identified by the Australian Space Agency as part of a rocket from another country.
European Space Agency engineer Andrea Boyd said that whoever owned the object originally should be responsible for disposing of it from a beach in Australia.
The debris was ejected into orbit in mid-March from the Endurance spacecraft, which was returning astronauts from the International Space Station.
The rocket was launched in 1980, with the rocket stage orbiting the Earth as space junk for the past 42 years.