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Space debris crashes at a jade mine in Hpakant, Myanmar

Name: Space debris crashes at a jade mine in Hpakant, Myanmar
Start: 2016-11-10
Location: Hpakant, Myanmar

When: 10 Nov 2016
Where: Hpakant, Myanmar
Sources: 3 public sources

A jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin State, where the debris fell in 2016 Arezarni, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A metal cylinder about 4.5 m long fell on a jade-mining site in Hpakant, Kachin State, and a smaller piece with Chinese writing pierced a house roof; no one was hurt. State media said it might be satellite or missile parts, and experts linked it to a Chinese Long March 11 launched the day before.

Sources

PressMysterious metal debris crash-lands in northern Myanmar, state media report (AFP) (opens in a new tab)Taipei Times (AFP) / 2016-11-12
PressMysterious metal object falls from sky in Myanmar (opens in a new tab)The Christian Science Monitor / 2016-11-12
PressFragments of a Suspected Chinese Rocket Have Crash-Landed Next to a Village in Myanmar (opens in a new tab)ScienceAlert / 2016-11

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