Part of a SpaceX rocket washes up on Scilly

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Had some interesting photos from some friends at home this evening - they found this big thing floating in the water off of the island. They dragged it in, cleaned some of the barnacles off and uncovered a US flag and a bit of a logo.

A bit of internet research, and it turns out it's from a Falcon 9 rocket, launched by SpaceX sometime in the last couple of years.

Photos: http://imgur.com/a/Ybb6f

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I've had emails from people asking to buy it already after putting pics online for 10 mins.

Probably not. It's very heavy. Maybe on the roof.
 
Lol I'm hardly surprised people are jumping on trying to buy it. A piece of space X could be worth a considerable amount in future years.

Although wouldn't they still own it? :confused:.

Pure interest what have you been offered for it?
 
That's very cool, you should contact spaceX. Stick it on their twitter.

Any more pics? How big is it, or is that showing all off it?

Haha it's already all over twitter
 
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Mynight said:
Lol I'm hardly surprised people are jumping on trying to buy it. A piece of space X could be worth a considerable amount in future years.

Although wouldn't they still own it? :confused:.

Pure interest what have you been offered for it?
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Surely it would be considered Fly tipping? ;)
 
Surely only scrap value. It's after all just a bit of random bit of metal (on a not very well known space rocket) Hardly the Space shuttle, and then even it's probably not worth squat.

SELL SELL SELL
 
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Reddit doing it's usual great thing

Okay, thanks to ocean debris simulations, we can place a few bounds on what vehicle this is from.
I plotted a few originating locations off the coast of Florida (both to the northeast to simulate an ISS launch and to the southeast to simulate a GTO msision) on the map courtesy of /u/darga89 's hazard maps.
It is unlikely that it is a launch from the last 18 months. In fact, if it is from a GTO mission, it is unlikely it is from the last 2 years. Using 18 months as our bound, this leaves the following 5 possible launches:
SES-8
Thaicom 6
CRS-3
OG2 L1
AsiaSat 8
I do not believe it is from a F9v1.0. I would suggest it has the highest probability of originating from one of these missions.

ChroniC said:
Surely only scrap value. It's after all just a bit of random bit of metal (on a not very well known space rocket) Hardly the Space shuttle, and then even it's probably not worth squat.

SELL SELL SELL
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CRS-3 would fit that and if so, it would be a somewhat historical stage - first soft landing of an used orbital stage
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This is awesome!!! Quite a find for sleepy old Scilly - would look great in tresco gardens, or somewhat put of place in Hugh town museum!
 
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