Mysterious Unidentified Object Crashes in Myanmar

[astr0144]

Mysterious Unidentified Object Crashes in Myanmar




Unidentified piece of an aircraft, believed to be an engine, falls near Hpakant jade mine | #Myanmar

A large, unidentified metal object fell from the sky yesterday (Nov. 10) in the remote mountainous region of Myanmar.

The cylindrical object, which is about 12 feet (3.7 meters) long and 5 feet in diameter, blasted into the village of Lone Khin, near a jade mine. Villagers woke early in the morning to a loud boom and vibrations, when the object fell to the ground. Though no one was injured, the UFO ripped through a jade miner's tent, and afterwards, the smell of burning filled the air, according to The Myanmar Times.

"Initially, we thought it was a battle. The explosion made our houses shake. We saw the smoke from our village," Lone Khin villager Daw Ma Kyi told The Myanmar Times.


Aerial object

At first glance, the object looks like it may have come from an aircraft.

"I think it was an engine because I found a diode and many copper wires at the tail of the body," villager Ko Maung Myo told The Myanmar Times. "It also looks like a jet engine block."

However, government officials say that they haven't identified the object and are sending experts to examine it. One former government official with the Department of Aviation said that the image shown on Facebook of the metal "UFO" looked more like a rocket booster than part of a commercial plane.

Just yesterday China announced the successful launch of a Long March Rocket 11 into space, along with five satellites and an experimental X-ray pulsar navigation spacecraft, Spaceflight Insider reported. The XPNAV-1 (an acronym for Maichong Xing Shiyan Weixing), a 530-pound (240 kilograms) spacecraft fitted with solar arrays and two detectors that use X-ray emissions from pulsars to navigate, is meant to identify the locations of spacecraft in deep space.

Space debris is a regular part of satellite and rocket launches. Though the odds of any individual person getting struck by detritus is low, the odds that it hits one of the 7 billion people on Earth is surprisingly high: After the launch of a school bus-sized satellite in 2011, Mark Matney, a scientist in the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, previously told Live Science that the odds of anyone being hit by that debris immediately after the launch were approximately one in 3,200.

Space is littered with junk from past exploration. All told, there were at least 500,00 pieces of space junk marble-size or larger that are orbiting our planet in 2010, though most pieces are on the small side. Of that space junk, more than 20,000 pieces are larger than a softball, according to NASA. In 2012, Switzerland proposed building a kind of space janitor to clean up some of that debris.


http://www.space.com/34697-unidentified-metal-object-crashes-in-myanmar.html

[robomont]

The last part of article is fluff imho,to convince folks launching stuff is safe ,but i bet if ol robo announced he was gonna launch a bus into space from his  backyard.....hehe.

[The Seeker]

I tend to disagree, Robo, for there is so much junk in orbit it boggles the mind, and that is addressed in the UMLR material

1 in 3200 is not all that high an odds when you take in to consideration the size of the planets surface area vs population density...


Seeker

[zorgon]

I will add this article to the files

For your FYI

These are the posts on Space Debris we have finished so far

Just go HERE http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/menu.html and scan dpwn to SPACE DEBRIS  I need to add a menu on that page it seems

Space Debris
Australia: Mystery metal ball an outback space oddity - 27th Mar, 2008
Brazil: Un-Identified object intrigues inhabitants in Goiás, Brazil - 24th Mar, 2008
Flaming Space Junk Narrowly Misses Jet - 28th March 2007
China's Anti-Satellite Test: Worrisome Debris Cloud Circles Earth
Genesis 'Lands' in Utah - September 2004
Large Chunk of ISS Space Junk Becomes Easy to Observe
Space Station Trash Plunging to Earth
Mission STS 88 - NASA STS-88 Black Transforming UFO? OR Space Debris?
Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof - Dec 1, 2011
Mysterious Metal Object Crashes Through Roof of Mass. Warehouse - Dec 1, 2011
Police Eye Texas Man's Theory On Mystery Metal Chunk That Hit Plymouth Business - Dec 2, 2011
Metal object crashes through suburban roof - Friday, March 12, 2010
Metal that fell through Carpentersville roof came from landscaping machinery
Hot metal crashes through N.J. business - February 18, 2009
Huge Defunct Satellite to Plunge to Earth Soon, NASA Says - Saturday, Sept. 24
Complete Coverage of NASA's Falling Satellite UARS
NASA Says: Space Debris - September 2006
Russian Rocket Explosion Leaves Debris
Re-entry of Space Debris
Ariane 5 solid rocket booster recovery and ATV Re-entry
Russian Space Station Mir Re-Entry - March 2001
Something fell out of the sky and landed in Australia - July 1979
Something fell out of the sky and landed in Texas - 2003
Space Debris - Round Sphere - April 2000
Space Junk landing on Earth and in orbit
Space Junk, Toxic Fuel Rains Down on Siberian Region
Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard
Scrap Metal Dealers Live Off Falling Rockets
Space Junk hits Earth Often, not People - Feb. 20, 2008
Spent Booster Fuel Tanks recovered
When is a Meteorite not a Meteorite? - January 2007

[SerpUkhovian]

Mysterious Unidentified Object Crashes in Myanmar




Unidentified piece of an aircraft, believed to be an engine, falls near Hpakant jade mine | #Myanmar

A large, unidentified metal object fell from the sky yesterday (Nov. 10) in the remote mountainous region of Myanmar.


http://www.space.com/34697-unidentified-metal-object-crashes-in-myanmar.html

The ground along the bottom of the object looks remarkably undisturbed to have just 'fallen' the day before. 

[The Seeker]

The ground along the bottom of the object looks remarkably undisturbed to have just 'fallen' the day before.

Hi serp
The object appears to be in a slurry pond from the jade mine,you can see a long tom rocker box in the picture behind the object

I would surmise that it probably rolled or tumbled to its current location

Seeker