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07-28-2016, 08:17 PM
Space junk soaring through Utah sky astonishes residents
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On Wednesday night, a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR253WnPnk) recoded by a Panguitch, Utah*,resident captured a stunning display of lights soaring across the night sky.*
While many onlookers believed the spectacle to be a meteor shower (http://mashable.com/category/meteor-shower/), astro**mer Jonathan McDowell shared on Twitter (https://twitter.com/planet4589) that the curious sight was in fact space junk (http://mashable.com/category/space-junk/) believed to have come from a spent body from one of China's rockets.
SEE ALSO: A piece of space junk chipped one of the Space Station's huge ******* (http://mashable.com/2016/05/12/tim-peake-space-station-impact/)
As the falling rocket debris continued to break up, spectators were in awe of the colorful streaks of light seen flying across the sky.
McDowell wrote several tweets (https://twitter.com/planet4589), explaining the the rocket stage re-entering was a result of the "launch of the CZ-7, one of China's new generation of rockets" and highlighting that 25 other re-entries of significant weight have occurred thus far in 2016. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/space-junk-utah/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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On Wednesday night, a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR253WnPnk) recoded by a Panguitch, Utah*,resident captured a stunning display of lights soaring across the night sky.*
While many onlookers believed the spectacle to be a meteor shower (http://mashable.com/category/meteor-shower/), astro**mer Jonathan McDowell shared on Twitter (https://twitter.com/planet4589) that the curious sight was in fact space junk (http://mashable.com/category/space-junk/) believed to have come from a spent body from one of China's rockets.
SEE ALSO: A piece of space junk chipped one of the Space Station's huge ******* (http://mashable.com/2016/05/12/tim-peake-space-station-impact/)
As the falling rocket debris continued to break up, spectators were in awe of the colorful streaks of light seen flying across the sky.
McDowell wrote several tweets (https://twitter.com/planet4589), explaining the the rocket stage re-entering was a result of the "launch of the CZ-7, one of China's new generation of rockets" and highlighting that 25 other re-entries of significant weight have occurred thus far in 2016. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/space-junk-utah/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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