Hi All, Anyone catch this article on CNN Headline news? --Rob - - - - NASA probes possible space debris found on beach March 1, 2000 Web posted at: 1:45 p.m. EST (1845 GMT) CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) -- Rocket nose cone -- or hot tub? A NASA specialist traveled to the the Texas coast Tuesday to identify what could be a piece of a French spacecraft. Nicholas Johnson, an expert on orbital debris, is trying to determine if the dome-shaped object found last week on Mustang Island is a nose cone from an Ariane-5 rocket booster. The plastic foam object mysteriously vanished as quickly as it appeared, but a local law enforcement officer came up with the key to the mystery. He said if a salvageable item washes up on the beach, a beachcomber named Barney Corey will find a use for it. NASA was alerted after the object was tracked down to Corey's Port Aransas home, near Corpus Christi. Meanwhile, Corey is bummed out. The beachcomber was hoping to use the object, whatever it is, for a hot tub. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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