Australian farmer finds mystery space junk


	Australian farmer finds mystery space junk

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3-28-2008 6:12 AM

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                        CANBERRA (Reuters) - 
A cattle farmer in <SPAN id="lw_1206681759_0" class="yshortcuts">Australia</SPAN>'s remote
northern outback on Friday said he had found a giant ball of
twisted metal, which he believes is space junk from a rocket
used to launch communications satellites.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/ts_nm/australia_spacejunk_dc">"I know a lot of about sheep and cattle but I don't know
much about satellites. But I would say it is a fuel cell off
some stage of a rocket."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/ts_nm/australia_spacejunk_dc"><P>He said the object was hollow, and covered in a
carbon-fiber material. He has contacted some U.S.-based
aerospace companies to try to find out what the object really
is.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/ts_nm/australia_spacejunk_dc"><P><SPAN id="lw_1206681759_3" class="yshortcuts">Sydney's Powerhouse Museum</SPAN> said it was not uncommon for
people to find spacejunk in remote areas of Australia.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/ts_nm/australia_spacejunk_dc"><P>In 1979, large parts of the <SPAN id="lw_1206681759_4" class="yshortcuts">Skylab space station</SPAN> fell to
earth near a tiny outback town in Australia's west. A local
council sent <SPAN id="lw_1206681759_5" class="yshortcuts">NASA</SPAN> a ticket for littering and then the United
States <SPAN id="lw_1206681759_6" class="yshortcuts">President Jimmy Carter</SPAN> rang a local motel to apologize.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/805ED498-7D99-4D58-8B40-9D837D9DCB82/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>