Most of the 20-year-old satellite should simply have burnt up on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, but modelling work indicated perhaps 500kg could have survived to the surface.
Before people started making such a mess, the number of dust particles orbiting earth was tiny, since they would have been dragged quickly into the atmosphere by friction and burnt up.
In this area, you can see the drought has left dried eucalyptus leaves and even dead ferns that just burnt up as tinder and let the whole forest catch fire very quickly.
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And so Mr Gore has become a modern Icarus: he flew to the top of politics behind a shameless president, and ended up getting burnt.
When they pulled up to the burnt office, there were several people there.
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Immediately after the news of Abashidze's resignation, Saakashvili's supporters burst into the Ajarian leader's residence, smashed up his offices and burnt Abashidze's armchair.
The hardest thing was cleaning up the remains of burnt-out cars.
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Those who thought they could not lose in a market that was seeing annual increases of up to 20% are getting their fingers burnt.
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Up and down in revolutions per second, something which burnt out their bearings.
He was adamant that he jumped up to close it, took a little slip and a "slightly burnt" half eaten cheese toastie just happened to be the only thing preventing his fall.
Many temples and shrines in the area surrounding Nijo Castle and Arashiyama also are lit up throughout hanami, as well as momiji-gari, when the lights seem to ignite the burnt orange and red maples.
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