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Space 'Fridge' Reaches Earth Safely Off Australian Coast

by Lee Bains on November 6, 2008 at 07:02 PM



Tuesday, we warned Earthlings of a 1,400-pound ammonia tank hurtling towards Earth from space, where an astronaut tossed it out of the International Space Station. Well, it turns out that we were a little late in our warning; NASA reported yesterday that the "space fridge" had already crashed to Earth three days prior to our report, the Daily Mail tells us.

Officials announced that chunks of the tank, as heavy as 15 pounds, sank into the Tasman Sea (between Australia and New Zealand) on Saturday, November 1st. We can only assume that the reason NASA took so long to report the objects' landfall is that, being so far from land and -- thankfully -- people, it just took them a while to find the wreckage. When it comes to huge metallic chunks falling from the sky, we figure the later the news the better.

That said, we're surprised NASA scientists didn't see the fridge coming with their multi-billion-dollar storm tracking system? [From: The Daily Mail]

Tags: breaking news, BreakingNews, debris, fridge, nasa, space, weird

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