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Old 26-November-2008, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by interstellaryeller View Post
Last week while a astronauts were repairing a faulty bearing on on of the solar panels lose a 100K tool bag it drifted out of reach before the astronaut noticed it ever though the tool bag is still orbiting the Earth two bright meteors have already been observed.
I suggest becoming a follower of the Bad Astronomer. He's good at nipping such nonsense in the bud stage.

BA Blog: Canadian fireball was NOT the ISS toolbag

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I can say unequivocally that the answer is no, because it takes months or years for objects at the ISS’s height to have their orbits decay and burn up in our atmosphere.
I suggest not crying wolf.
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