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Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 debris found in Washington

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 04-02-2021 05:58 PM On March 25, 2021, the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket broke apart as it fell back into the atmosphere [URL=https://www.geekwire.com/2021/expert-skywatchers-quickly-solve-pacific-northwests-marvelous-meteor-mystery/]over the Pacific Northwest[/URL]. Launched on March 4 on a mission to deploy Starlink satellites, the stage failed to perform a deorbit burn, leading to the uncontrolled reentry 22 days later. Today (April 2), the Grant County Sheriff's Office [URL=https://twitter.com/GrantCoSheriff/status/1378031863785263106]reported[/URL] that debris from the stage was found and returned to SpaceX. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]SpaceX recovered a Composite-Overwrapped Pressure Vessel from last week's Falcon 9 re-entry. It was found on private property in southwest Grant County this week. Media and treasure hunters: we are not disclosing specifics. The property owner simply wants to be left alone.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_falcon9_debris_grant_county01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_falcon9_debris_grant_county01.jpg" width="400" height="177" border="0"></a></center> The impact left a 4-inch dent in the soil, [URL=https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/2/22364582/spacex-rocket-debris-falls-farm-washington]reports The Verge[/URL]. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]A Grant County, Washington property owner, who told authorities he didn't want to be identified, found the errant COPV — roughly the size and shape of a hefty punching bag — sitting on his farm one morning last weekend. He reported it to the Grant County Sheriff's Office, GCSO spokesman Kyle Foreman said in a phone call. A sergeant was dispatched on Monday to check it out. "Neither the property owner nor our sergeant are rocket scientists, of course, but judging from what had happened a few days prior, it looked to them like it was possibly debris from the Falcon 9 reentry," Foreman said. So the sergeant called SpaceX, which confirmed to GCSO it appeared to be their's and dispatched employees to retrieve the COPV on Tuesday. SpaceX didn't respond to a request for comment.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>
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