Metal ring falls on Mukuku village, Kenya

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A hill near a village in Makueni County, Kenya
Makueni County, Kenya, where the metal ring fell on Mukuku village Smilymecy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A red-hot metal ring about 2.5 m across and roughly 500 kg fell into Mukuku village in Makueni County. The Kenya Space Agency recovered it and said preliminary findings showed it was a rocket separation ring; the exact launch was not named.

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  1. PressSpace object that landed in Makueni was from rocket: Kenya Space Agency (opens in a new tab)Citizen Digital / 2025-01-01
  2. PressSpace debris crash in Kenya village believed to be from leftover rocket hardware (opens in a new tab)Space.com / 2025-01
  3. PressKenya Space Agency Investigates Partially Burnt Rocket Fragment Found in Mukuku Village (opens in a new tab)Space in Africa / 2025-01-01

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