Space junk found on Australian farms suspected to be from SpaceX

Three big hunks of space junk have been found in rural Australia. The more mundane part of space exploration is the clean up.

Between July 14 and July 25 there were fallen objects in the New South Wales state. Mick Miners, a sheep farmer, discovered a piece that is 10 feet tall and is embedded in the ground.

Miners was confused by his discovery. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia told Jock Wallace to talk to NASA about the debris he found.

What am I going to say to NASA? Wallace inquired about Australia's ABC news. Dalgety is a small town with a population of around 250.

The farmers will not have to figure out what to do with the space junk. The Australian Space Agency is working with the US to find out who the metal belongs to. The piece found by miners appears to have a serial number.

While the formal identification process is still going on, it's believed that Australia's surprise installation art comes from the crew dragon resilience

The company's first operational crewed mission took place in November 2020 and brought four astronauts to the space station. In early May last year, the same capsule returned them to Earth, with debris from the mission expected to reenter the atmosphere within two months.

Dalgety is near the Dragon's July 8 re-entry path, which is across the international date line from the U.S. Several Australians heard a boom and saw a fast moving object in the sky.

There is a one in 10 chance that someone will be killed by falling space debris within the next 10 years. People in the Global South are more at risk than people in other countries. The Global North includes Australia.

It has yet to acknowledge or claim its space litter. Even if Musk pretends he doesn't see it, he might not have to pick up after himself.

The UN's Outer Space Treaty and the convention on international liability for damage caused by space objects states that the country that launches a rocket is responsible for any damage it causes. The American government may be left to clean up Musk's mess because these agreements have been approved by both Australia and the U.S.