Space debris Australia: Piece of SpaceX capsule crashes to Earth in field

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Mick Miners thought he saw a dead tree when he saw a large black object sticking out of the ground.

He found out it had fallen from the sky.

The Australian space agency said it was from a capsule.

The discovery was described as rare and exciting by experts.

The object was not found until several weeks later, after it landed in a large area of fields.

The ASA asked anyone who came across more items to contact the debris hotline set up by the company.

An astronomer was called to examine the object.

Most of the discoveries he makes are not space debris.

He said in a video that he'd never seen a piece of space junk fall like this.

It is very rare for space debris to hit land, according to Don Pollacco, a professor of astrophysics.

He said that the majority of the planet is in the ocean.

Lottie Williams was uninjured when a piece of space debris landed on her shoulder in Oklahoma in 1997.

Damage to buildings from pieces of a Chinese rocket was reported in 2020.

The number of rockets sent to space has gone up in recent years, which may lead to more discoveries on land.

Prof Pollacco said that the Sun is moving into a cycle of being more active.

A study from the University of British Columbia found that there was a 10% chance of someone being killed by space debris in the next decade.

Prof Pollacco says that the chance of an individual being hurt is almost zero.

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