Excitement in a village in Kenya: A half-ton metal ring that appears to have come from space has crashed in the town of Mukuku in the south of the African country.
The Kenyan space agency, the Kenya Space Agency (KSA), announced on Wednesday that it was probably part of a space rocket. The metal ring has a diameter of about two and a half meters and weighs about 500 kilograms.
According to information, the metal part fell in the village on Monday. The debris has been recovered and is now being examined. “Preliminary investigation indicates that the fallen object was a separation ring from a launch vehicle,” the agency said.
Space organization: “This is an isolated case”
The separation ring should have burned up upon reentry into Earth’s atmosphere or ended up in uninhabited areas. “This is an isolated case,” the KSA emphasized. The building does not pose a threat to public safety.
Similar incident as 2022 in India
A similar incident took place in India in early April 2022. In the state of Maharashtra, in the west of the country, villagers discovered a large metal ring and a metal ball that had fallen from the sky.
Indian officials and space experts suspected at the time that the debris was parts of a Chinese rocket launched into space more than a year earlier.
In 2020, debris from a Chinese Long March rocket fell on Ivory Coast. Although they caused material damage in several villages, fortunately no fatalities or injuries occurred.
Source: Krone
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