Space junk found on Australian farm believed to be from Elon Musk's SpaceX mission – video
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The Australian Space Agency is investigating space debris found in farmland in the Snowy Mountains in southern NSW, after being notified by an astrophysicist who believes it to be from a SpaceX mission.
Dr Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at the Australian National University, received a call last Thursday from Mick Miners and Jock Wallace, two sheep farmers in the small town of Dalgety, who reported having found a scorched object.
Their report matched a SpaceX spacecraft which re-entered the earth's atmosphere at 7am on 9 July, 20 months after its launch in November 2020
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