Re: Rocket wreckage found in outback

From: John Locker (john@satcom.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 14:11:15 UTC

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    Great story and some amazing pictures.
    
    I'm no expert on the weather conditions which prevail in that region , but 
    the remains don't look like they have spent 40 years or more open to the 
    ravages of extreme temperatures.
    Having said that , it may be that its just those conditions which have led 
    to the hardware  staying in an almost pristine state.
    
    
    Could this be "wreckage" from a much more recent launch I wonder ????
    
    John
    
    
    
    
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    From: "Michael & Caroline Rice" <mcrice@bigpond.com>
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    Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:20 PM
    Subject: Rocket wreckage found in outback
    
    
    > From Australian ABC News
    > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/04/2265252.htm
    > Also links to video 
    > http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200806/r257547_1067056.asx
    > And photo http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200806/r257563_1067126.jpg
    >
    > Rocket wreckage found in outback
    > ===========================================================
    >
    > Surveyors in the Simspon Desert have discovered what is believed to be 
    > part
    > of a blue streak rocket launched at Woomera in 1966.
    >
    > Simon Fanning and his geological survey team were flying over the Simpson
    > Desert when they saw what they believed was part of satellite in the 
    > scrub.
    >
    > "It turns out this wreck is not in fact a satellite but a rocket - at 
    > least
    > a chunk of one anyway" he said.
    >
    > "I'd seen ET as a kid, Star Wars and all that stuff, but to actually find
    > something was really different."
    >
    > Dr Alice Gorman of Flinders University in Adelaide believes the rocket 
    > could
    > be one of 10 blue streak rockets launched at Woomera in South Australia in
    > the 1960s by the European Launcher Development Organisation.
    >
    > "The blue streak's very distinctive and the location in the Simpson Desert
    > and the details on the rocket indicate it's most likely from one of the 
    > two
    > 1966 launches" she said.
    >
    > Mr Fanning is reluctant to disclose the precise location of the find, but
    > the ABC has found a EBay site offering the GPS coordinates for sale.
    >
    > There is private collector interest in blue streaks, but Dr Gorman says 
    > this
    > discovery belongs in a museum.
    >
    > "There was only a handful of them launched here in Australia" she said.
    >
    > "I think it would be appropriate to put this one in a museum."
    >
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