Australian farmers mysteriously found space debris scattered across their fields last month. An astrophysicist who examined the junk now believes it was from a SpaceX flight.
Scientists had known that debris from the Dragon spacecraft debris could fall in the area around early July and the debris is a"good match" for the trunk's flight path on July 8,"Having gone out there and looked at the bits myself, there is not a doubt in my mind it is space junk,"The sheep farmer Mick Miners discovered the 10-foot-tall object in his field on July 25,.
Wallace first reported the finding to the local civil aviation safety authority, which told him to call NASA.He also said of the debris:"If it landed on your house it would make a hell of a mess." The Australian Space Agency and New South Wales police are investigating the objects to confirm their connection to space flights,"Eventually SpaceX, or at least the US, will have to make a declaration about whether they want to keep it or have it returned, or not," Tucker said, according to ABC., and scientists can track the larger pieces of space debris from Earth to predict where they will fall.
However, scientists have been sounding the alarm on space debris, saying that the problem will only get worse as space travel intensifies.
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