Space Junk Found on Sheep Farm
gawdonblue writes:
Sheep farmers find large pieces of debris including serial numbers after a loud bang was heard earlier this month.
It is believed to be space junk from the first manned SpaceX mission to the International Space Station.
Story: Space junk potentially found in NSW Snowy Mountains paddocks
A large piece of debris found in the middle of a sheep paddock could be space junk from a SpaceX mission, and linked to a large bang heard across the region earlier this month.
Many of those who heard the bang on July 9 took to social media to report it across the Snowy Mountains in southern NSW, and as far away as Albury, Wagga Wagga and Canberra.
Speculation was rife that it may have been caused by the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft re-entering earth's atmosphere after it launched in November 2020.
Mick Miners, who runs a sheep farm at Numbla Vale, south of Jindabyne, stumbled across an almost three metre high object wedged into a remote part of his paddock on Monday.
[...] Australian National University College of Science astrophysicist Brad Tucker said the debris was most likely from the unpressurised crew trunk of the craft.
He said it was possibly the largest piece of documented debris in Australia since NASA's Skylab space station came plummeting back to Earth above Esperance in Western Australia in 1979.
It appears to either be a piece of space junk, or an early prototype Firstborn Monolith [hubie].
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