Sunday , February 02, 2003
The following are highlights of the hundreds of reports of debris from the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia:
Texas
-- Remains that a hospital employee identified as charred torso, thigh bone and skull on a rural road near other unspecified debris in Hemphill, east of Nacogdoches.
-- Remains identified as a charred human leg on a farm in Sabine County, about 50 miles east of Nacogdoches.
-- Intact, charred helmet and astronaut's patch in San Augustine County.
-- A rounded piece of what appeared to be metal, about 4 by 5 feet in size, found on a rural highway in Neches.
-- Foot-long metal bracket which smashed through roof of dentist's office in Nacogdoches.
-- Half-moon-shaped metal piece, about 5 feet long, in front yard in Nacogdoches, described as jagged with severe burn marks.
-- V-shaped chunk of metal in the median of U.S. 79 just northeast of Palestine, in Anderson County. More unspecified debris found at nearby Pert.
-- 2-foot square pieces of metal, small pieces of tile in Cherokee County, just west of Nacogdoches, and in Rusk County, just to the north.
-- Unspecified debris falling near Jacksonville, Palestine, Rusk and Athens.
-- A brick-size piece of debris in the back yard of a home off FM 23 near Rusk. Other pieces in a nearby hay field.
-- 5- by 5-inch item that appeared to be a charred piece of tile in front of Rice High School in Rice, in Navarro County.
-- Unspecified debris several inches in diameter in Henderson County, including footlong piece on land being developed by family of former Texas Gov. Bill Clements.
-- Tank, about 3 feet in diameter, on a runway at the A.L. Mangham Jr. Regional Airport in Nacogdoches.
-- Steel rod with silver bolts in a Nacogdoches yard.
-- 3- by 3-foot piece of metal in a bank parking lot in Nacogdoches.
-- 1-foot diameter piece of gray metal in front of the courthouse in Nacogdoches.
-- 9- by 2-inch piece of metal in a yard, ash on a car in Nacogdoches.
-- Chunk of unspecified debris with stenciled letters and numbers on it in Kerens near Highway 309 in Navarro County.
-- Curved piece of metal, about 5 feet in diameter, in the median of state Highway 55 in Anderson County, west of Nacogdoches.
-- Five pieces that look like tile in the Neches First Baptist Church parking lot. Another piece that appears to be insulation on the roof.
-- 7- to 8-foot door-like fragment and a piece of debris resembling part of a windshield found in Cherokee County.
-- Small piece of black tile, about 6 inches by 6 inches, on a roof in Waxahachie, south of Dallas.
-- A metal object resembling an exercise ball in the front yard of a home in Bronson, southeast of Nacogdoches near the Louisiana line. The object is dented and has bolts and nodules coming out of it.
-- 3-foot-by-3-foot cylindrical object at National Guard Armory No. 2 in Nacogdoches.
Louisiana:
-- Smoldering bundle of wires in a front yard in Shreveport.
-- Compact-car sized piece reported splashing into Toledo Bend Reservoir on Texas-Louisiana state line.
-- Debris in Ouachita Parish thought by authorities "to be possibly a parachute."
-- Four unspecified pieces of wreckage fell west of Leesville in Vernon Parish.