Identify mystery object

STEED · 06-25-15, 10:05 AM

Part of the Rosswell UFO that crashed in 1948.

Oberon · 06-25-15, 10:08 AM

Yeah, does look like some kind of fairing.

Raptor1 · 06-25-15, 10:41 AM

Almost certainly a rocket fairing of some persuasion. Probably one of those used on the Soyuz rockets.

Oberon · 06-25-15, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Raptor1

Almost certainly a rocket fairing of some persuasion. Probably one of those used on the Soyuz rockets.

Yeah, Soyuz would be the likely candidate:

EDIT: Unusual place for it though, since most if not all Soyuz launches are from Baikonur, must have fallen there on re-entry and maybe floated with the tides.

Raptor1 · 06-25-15, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

EDIT: Unusual place for it though, since most if not all Soyuz launches are from Baikonur, must have fallen there on re-entry and maybe floated with the tides.

True. Under normal launch conditions I don't think a fairing would get to the Atlantic ocean from Baikonur, but it should be possible if it was detached late or something. There have been a couple of Soyuz launches from French Guiana, too.

Oberon · 06-25-15, 11:39 AM

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There have been a couple of Soyuz launches from French Guiana, too.

Could have been a polar orbital launch, or quite possibly a launch from ages ago that has only just dropped low enough for re-entry. There's a lot up there after all.

Schroeder · 06-25-15, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

or quite possibly a launch from ages ago that has only just dropped low enough for re-entry. There's a lot up there after all.

Wouldn't those be scorched at best and completely disintegrated at worst after re-entry? They aren't made for that after all.
What about a test ICBM launch from some submarine? Couldn't those lose a cowl? Would make more sense to me with no space port in the area and there are lots of exercises going on now in Nato and Russia.

Aktungbby · 06-25-15, 12:11 PM

??? I count twelve square attachment points on each side in the nose cone: Resurs-P2 spacecraft in June 2008, it was promised to fly in December 2013 and in the spring of 2012, the mission was still expected in the fourth quarter of 2013.

this one launched 12/26/ 2014 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

06-25-15, 10:05 AM	#1
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Part of the Rosswell UFO that crashed in 1948. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

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Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Almost certainly a rocket fairing of some persuasion. Probably one of those used on the Soyuz rockets. __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,016 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Resurs-P2 cone? ??? I count twelve square attachment points on each side in the nose cone: Resurs-P2 spacecraft in June 2008, it was promised to fly in December 2013 and in the spring of 2012, the mission was still expected in the fourth quarter of 2013. this one launched 12/26/ 2014 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Yeah, does look like some kind of fairing.