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Originally Posted by S3XPanther

Whoa, I didn't know that. From everything I've read, it seemed certain that the piece belonged to us.

Could it belong to us? Maybe. I doubt it was because I don't recall us having a way of putting anything into a polar orbit. Now, we have Vandenburg Air Force Base for polar orbits, but Vandenburg wasn't really launching anything that high at that time.

Could it be the Russians? Maybe. This was at the time of the Cold War. So we really didn't know what they were launching or where they were launching from at that time. But it is almost certain that they couldn't launch polar orbits either. But we don't know everything that they were doing up there. After all, it is rumored to be a part of a Russian spy satellite.

NASA doesn't really talk about this satellite much. So really it's a guessing game for everyone.

But I'm gonna say that it's just space debris.