[FPSPACE] 12 - 18 inch object breaks away from Discovery ????

[Geert Sassen]

Engineers believe the object seen floating away from Discovery this 
morning is one of three thermal clips along the thermal barrier on the 
shuttle's rudder/speed brake.

ref. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts124/status.html

satcom wrote:
> Having just reviewed the video that was downlinked there was a definite 
> "glint" from the object......in fact more than one.....certainly not ice 
> like. and quite angular....sharp edges.
>
> If 12 inches long it was approx 4 "  wide.
>
> John