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Meteorite hit shuttle Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_747632.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_747632.html Meteorite 'may have hit shuttle' Nasa says a small meteorite or piece of man-made space junk may have struck the Columbia shuttle causing it to crash. Even a tiny scrap of debris grazing the shuttle could have damaged thermal tiles just enough to start a chain reaction. The comments by Milt Heflin, the space agency's flight director, cast doubt on the lead theory that a piece of foam insulation damaged the craft during blast off. "Did we take some hit? That's a possibility. Something was breached," he has told the Los Angeles Times. William Ailor, president of Aerospace Corporation, said Nasa has had to adjust the flight path of shuttles at least eight times to avoid large pieces of debris. A speck of paint once chipped the windshield of the Challenger during a mission completed before it exploded in 1986. There are believed to be more than a million objects within 1,200 miles of the Earth's surface. Story filed: 16:04 Wednesday 5th February 2003

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