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Nov 26, 2008 12:35 PM | 5
When NASA astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost a tool bag during a space walk last week, it seemed we had seen the last of that gear.
But amateur astronomer Kevin Fetter of Brockville, Ontario, appears to have tracked it down, using coordinates from the U.S. military, according to the Toronto Star. He filmed the sack using a home telescope—it looks like a bright star darting across the night sky. NASA expects the tool kit, now just another piece of space debris, to burn up during re-entry in a matter of months.
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Add CommentThat is interesting. Last night I was in Kaukauna, Wisconson looking to the west lower sky around 7:30pm and saw what I knew was not a shooting star, but something that disappeared over the roof line of a house within a second of when I first saw it. I commented to my wife that it couldn't have been a shooting star, but was surely not an airplane.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThat was FUN! Thank you, Kevin, for submitting this little video of the result of a little space mishap.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOk I do not know much about NASA toolkits, but would any metal objects in it also burn up during re-entry or hit someone, hard?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWow! That was fast! Does it pick up speed as it goes?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIs there a date on this video? We were in the middle of the Leonids, you know. And what (besides location) indicates this is the toolkit? Repeatability?
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