[virgil]

Thanks for the video. It looks like ice to me and it turned to water when it got close to the flame. It also looks like it may have fell on SRB too. They retrieve those and re-use them, right? Maybe they should look at those.

[Mark Felton]

Could be. If you look real close a soild piece comes out beneath the wing (very faint).

It took me several views before I caught that solid piece coming out the bottom. In other words it looks a bit like the solid piece came in from the top, glanced off the wing and continued straight down, while the vapor spray was ejected out at an angle off to one side.

Then again the vapor may have been the water from the ice and the hard object coming out the bottom may have been a tile.

It's a shame that the little camera that was a novelty a couple of flights ago wasn't installed. It was attached to the fuel tank looking down at the shuttle.