The Australian Space Agency has confirmed the space debris found in the Snowy Mountains in southern New South Wales belongs to a craft built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.
Sheep farmers Mick Miners and Jock Wallace each discovered a piece of space debris on their respective farms.
The agency had been alerted by Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist from the Australian National University, who first realized the timing and location of the debris falling coincided with a SpaceX spacecraft which re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere at 7am on 9 July, 20 months after its launch in November 2020.
Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell confirms the debris came from the unpressurised trunk of the SpaceX capsule, which is critical to take off but dumped when returning to earth.
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