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The round steel object, with a 7.5-meter diameter and with the number 02728 on it, that fell from the sky in Buren soum of Tuv province on February 19 was most possibly a dead satellite, according to experts in the team who brought it to Ulaanbaatar  on Tuesday. There were no casualties because it fell in an empty field.
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Ed ~ Very likely debris from the Delta II rocket body that launched the STSS Demo mission

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Two unknown disk shape objects crash to the ground on 19 February, 2010. near the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar. One is smaller, about 10 kg and the another is huge, approximately 2 tons.
There has been reports that maybe it was a piece of space junk, or a Chinese missile test gone wrong.

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