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The 500-kilogram piece of space junk ended its nosedive next to a Kenyan cornfield. Residents of Mukuku, about 100 kilometers from the capital Nairobi, described the moments before the impact on December 30 as a huge hiss followed by an enormous boom, according to local media. The object, which has since filled the news in the East African country, was found hanging around the metal bar of a fence. “As if the gods had played ring toss,” he wrote Spiegel poetic.
