This piece of debris fell onto Earth in 1997 and hit Lottie Williams, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the shoulder while she was walking in the park.
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This is a delta 2 third stage that reentered the atmosphere over the Middle East on January 21, 2001.
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This is the Russian space station Mir. It had been in space for 15 years and on March 23, 2001 it began its descent down to Earth. It weighed 286,600 pounds. It had 1,500 fragments reached Earth's surface.
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This is the U.S. space station Skylab which launched on May 14, 1973 and made a premature end on July 11, 1979. I weighed 77 tons and sent chunks of debris over an area stretching from the Southeastern Indian Ocean to Western Australia.
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