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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home earlier this year was not a meteorite after all, but probably a piece of space junk, scientists said Friday.
The silvery object was made of a stainless-steel alloy that does not occur in nature and is most likely "orbital debris" — part of a satellite, rocket or some other spacecraft, said Rutgers University geologist Jeremy Delaney.
"There's huge amounts of material that have been left by the various space programs of the world," he said.
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