Mysterious Metallic Space Ball Falls to Earth in Africa, Baffling Authorities

Mythbusters will be releasing another apology soon.

I suspect with all the junk satellites in space this just the beginning. If the USA produce the satellite, NASA may figure out who this round object belongs too. But if it belongs to another country and something secret type junk satellite, then we may never know the owner.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

Hehe I live in Namibia! :D People are going stupid here.
And really I cant make sense of that thing for poop, its just round with two dimples and no other features. Waiting for the X-rays to see whats inside, probably empty though.

Damn alien ships and their defective exhaust systems! Time to call Galactic AAA!

Confirmed! Its a soviet satellite fuel tank
http://www.flickr.com/photos/npdemers/4451626178/

Bubble caused by heat of re-entry.

On second thought... what did the russians de-orbit?
Is phobos already coming down???
It doesn't have round fuel tanks though.

"....Made of a “metal alloy known to man,” the 13-pound ball is about 43 inches in circumference and landed roughly 480 miles from the Namibian capital of Windhoek..."

One, it seems they know what metal it made of from the above sentence. Since almost everything about a satellite is special and can be unique this may give more of a clue who made it.

Two, measure round object in metric, this may help to understand more about its purpose and who is the owner.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

Its aliens.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e64/DEATHSTRIKE-117/ancient-aliens-guy.png

@CeilingFan124

That guy cracks me up.

i bet nasa will take responsibility like always... no doubt this is from an alien space craft. just look at it. it looks nothing like its man made. its part an ancient alien craft that helped create the pyramids. try debunking this one disinformation agents.

"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"

-Killah Priest

Here's an answer, require all future satellites to log the shape, weight, composition, and a picture of every single piece that goes up. At least we will have a better chance at IDing fallen pieces in the future. As to this object, I'm fairly certain it has terrestrial origins, we could (1) test the composition, there might be trace elements that indicate where the metal was forged, (2) open it up and look at the markings inside, probably from a very specific machine that can be traced.

I wonder how many have fallen into the ocean or over the antarctic...

JediMindset,
Your stuck in a rut..

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

The article reads it fell from the Heavens.
Well their are 3 heavens. Perhaps it fell from the 1st\sky
and not outer space.

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Chances are its a radioisotope thermoelectric generator... those things can enter earth's atmosphere at beyond escape velocity, come down on solid concrete, and not break.

Its just a hydrazine deposit! No big deal.

What people should be fascinated by is -- it survived re-entry intact. All metals made by man would melt on re-entry in the atmosphere, certain thermal protection systems, TPS, are made out of ceramics or high temperature coatings and can take the heat of re-entry.

The secret to it surviving may be because of its spherical shape and as it re-entered the atmosphere it spun around deflecting the hot atmospheric plasma re-distributing the heat evenly around the object. Another thought is that at re-entry it slowed down much slower than other objects because of the blower effect, spherical objects have a low coefficient of drag. Have you ever suspend a ping palm ball in the air with a hairdryer before, it will rotate and remain elevated in one place as long as you keep it steady.

Ron Bennett

So THAT is were my torture droid went off too...

Playing Devil's Advocate since 1978

"The only constant in the universe is change"
-Heraclitus of Ephesus 535 BC - 475 BC

Some saiyans are coming.

Looks like a fuel cell or cryogenic tank of some sort. Probably from an old satellite. I love how people want to believe every little thing is alien! I bet if a wristwatch fell from the sky, someone would claim it was ET's.

SPACE BALLS!!! i love that movie!!!

It's just the gods playing golf and one got away from mount zeus.......

Namibia is a souther African country. South Africa is thought to have much mining in ancient history for gold and diamonds for aliens. Most of the economy of Namibia come today from mining. It is believe much of Nazi Germany settled in Namibia. It is also believe much of Germany's science was given to them from aliens.

This recent artifact round metal ball is eqaul to an 'oops' we dropped some alien space technology and now its in the news... Please ignore it, we are a simple country, we do not know how it got here, ooopsie!!!

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See life in all its beautiful colors, and
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It looks cold.

Thanks,
-Tony

Holy Shmoley.

Anybody read The Athena Project???

The book explains the balls if you care to scare the hell out of yourself.

Simple explanations are the best: www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/

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http://banditrider.weebly.com/index.html

Hey Banditrider
You're flipin brillant, it's gods left nut.

Bring that shitbox that you ride over, and I will teach you how to ride a wheelie on it.

google this

104 Litre Hydrazine Propellant Tank: Model OST 31/0

rancore,
I googled what you suggested and it appears to be a twin. The only difference is an understandable heat damage to the object in this article.
Thank you very much for your suggestion.

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See life in all its beautiful colors, and
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This may possibly be a Titanium hydrazine propellant tank typically used on the Globalstar, Theos, Pleiades and RocSat spacecraft??
http://cs.astrium.eads.net/sp/spacecraft-propulsion/propellant-tanks/104-litre-hydrazine-propellant-tank.html

i was wrong.... its not from aliens its man made. go to the link.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/23/spaceballs-the-debris/

"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"

-Killah Priest

Dam aliens got balls !!!

It's one of two things, it's a fuel tank, or there is an alien space craft that suddenly got loud when its anti matter engine muffler fell off. I just hope they have a "watch for falling parts" bumper sticker.

Science always asks "can we," but doesn't seem to ask "should we."

It's Dr. Zin's robot eye / spider thingy.

-- Its without a doubt human because you can see the support seems where they joined the sphere halves. If aliens they would logically have made a perfect sphere in space without the affects of gravity..

Its space junk. calm down.

Hello!
If you can se "Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath" in India has about same color and is very old....

Here is URL to compare with
http://visitmyhub.com/tourism/ashoka-pillar-at-sarnath-%E2%80%93-great-indian-monument-%E2%80%93-historical-significance-photos-images/

Those "Space balls" could be very old as for examle "Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath" from other civilization....... on earth

this is no satelite junk it is truely alien and i am sure about it

Jedimindset,

"i was wrong.... its not from aliens its man made."

There's a surprise.

*sarcasm on*

It obviously could not have been alien since the mass population found out about it! If it were alien you would have never heard of it as all of Namibia would have been rounded up into secret government re-education facilities, and all of the government-controlled media would be silenced.

*sarcasm off*

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"Do not offer sympathy to the mentally ill.
Tell them firmly:
I am not paid to listen to this drivel.
You are a terminal boob." - William S. Burroughs

The proper term is "Space Coconut".

Could it be Chinese space station parts falling from the sky, lol.

does anybody remember the movie "The Andromeda Strain"? sounds kinda familiar eh?

Scientifically it has been suggested life on earth came from some type of chemical\biological source falling from outer space and seeded life on earth.

I suppose this could be an alien invasion and this is one of the alien pods fallen to the ground to seed a virus and wipe out humanity, prior to the outer space aliens arrival.

Considering the record of fail Russian and Chinese space adventures, I most likely believe this is part of something they attempted to launch into outer space. Their rocket launches have a close similarity to the old ‘3 Stooges’ as they travel down the road in an old car and engine parts are falling out from the back of the car onto the street as they bang, pop, clunk down the road.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

If you are dropping your space balls, does that mean your space program has low T?

Jack Cain

Bucks, Blisters or Blood - Everyone needs to pay for the freedoms we enjoy!

mos def: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/23/spaceballs-the-debris/

Mysterious Metallic Space ball it also fall on my country.In 3 day ago place Than Pyuzayat township Mon State Myanmar.I want to know where they come ?