[FPSPACE] Falling Space Debris in Kazakhstan (fwd)

[Joanne Gabrynowicz]

	Has anyone else heard about this?

Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz
Professor, Space Law & Policy
Remote Sensing Law & Policy     
Space Studies Department       	
University of North Dakota
gabrynow@aero.und.nodak.edu

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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 11:00:07 -0400
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Subject: Falling Space Debris in Kazakhstan

IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S SPACE DEBRIS, "RFE/RL NEWSLINE", Vol. 4,
No. 190, Part I, 2 October 2000.

The Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan warned residents of the Ulaganskii
and Turachak districts of the Altai Republic about falling space debris
from a Proton rocket that took off on 2 October carrying a U.S. television
satellite into orbit, ITAR-TASS reported on 1 October. A source in the
republic's Emergencies Ministry told the agency that warnings are necessary
since a Proton rocket fragment weighing several dozen kilograms fell in the
area last February. No one was injured in that incident, but the villager
on whose land the fragment fell was awarded 10,000 rubles ($360) in damages.