{"id":1595351,"date":"2022-08-08T18:47:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595351"},"modified":"2022-08-08T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:48:20","slug":"possible-debris-from-spacex-dragon-capsule-crashes-into-australian-sheep-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/possible-debris-from-spacex-dragon-capsule-crashes-into-australian-sheep-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Debris From SpaceX Dragon Capsule Crashes Into Australian Sheep Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpossible-debris-from-spacex-dragon-capsule-crashes-into-australian-sheep-farm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595351&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Australian sheep farmers discovered two large pieces of space debris and several other smaller scraps scattered in the middle of a paddock last month that may have belonged to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/spacex\">SpaceX<\/a> Crew-1\u2019s Dragon Capsule.<\/p>\n<p>Wedged into pastures in New South Wales, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/australia\">Australia<\/a>, witnesses believe the debris re-entered the Earth\u2019s atmosphere on July 9 after reports of a large bang heard within a 100-mile radius across the Snowy Mountains, Australian media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-07-29\/space-junk-found-in-nsw-snowy-mountains-paddocks-\/101277542\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Miners, who runs a sheep from in the region, came across a nearly 10-foot black and gray piece of space junk that looked similar to the Dragon Capsule\u2019s trunk on his property last month, giving him quite a shock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t quite sure what to think about it all,\u201d Miners told Australian media. \u201cI looked, and then I had a look around, and it made me sort of wonder a bit what was going on when things just start falling out of the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miners then approached his neighboring farmer, who also found debris a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a concern it\u2019s just fallen out of the sky,\u201d Jock Wallace told Australian media. \u201cIf it landed on your house it would make a hell of a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Searching for answers about the mysterious object falling from the starts, Wallace contacted the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, who told him to connect with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a farmer from Dalgety,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat am I going to say to NASA?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at Australia National University College of Science, told local media he believes one of the objects came from the trunk of the SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon mission, which launched in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to always be 100% in science,\u201d Tucker said. \u201cI would say, with very little doubt, that this is a piece of space junk \u2014 the things that we\u2019ve been saying here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tucker said that based on the structure\u2019s build, composition, and some of the materials marked with subtle details such as scarring patterns from re-entering the Earth\u2019s atmosphere have led him to believe the bits of space junk came from the trunk of the SpaceX mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a distance as well, it just looks like an old burnt tree stump,\u201d Tucker told\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-debris-fall-australia-crew-1-dragon-capsule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space.com<\/a>. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until you got closer you realize there is something off about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although SpaceX has not yet confirmed it the debris belonged to the revolutionary space technology company, its Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City on May 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, SpaceX can confirm it is their part,\u201d Tucker said, adding that Elon Musk\u2019s company did not do anything wrong. \u201cIn fact, the whole point was to have the bits break up \u2014 as we see \u2014 and land in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just didn\u2019t quite land in the ocean,\u201d he added. \u201cProbably most of it still did. This is part of the normal plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonathon McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian collaboration Center for Astrophysics, said in a\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planet4589\/status\/1553030725456240643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a>\u00a0the space object landed near the Dragon\u2019s re-entry path and \u201cis a good match to one of the Dragon trunk fins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Space debris crash-landing into the Earth\u2019s surface has happened in the past before the sheep farmers\u2019 case.<\/p>\n<p>Australian astrophysicist Tucker said the U.S. Space Station known as Skylab crashed over Esperance, Western Australia in the 1970s. During the 1980s, another incident occurred with a Russian nuclear-powered satellite plunging into Canadian land. And approximately 40 years later, a Chinese rocket booster damaged buildings in West Africa\u2019s Ivory Coast in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, the only recorded incident of a piece of space debris landing on someone was the case of Lottie Williams in Oklahoma, who was hit in the shoulder with an object, BBC\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-62414438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the two sheep farmers were thankful to have dodged the debris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I don\u2019t think you\u2019d fare too well if it landed on you,\u201d Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p>Although Wallace admits, it\u2019s quite exciting to know the debris crashed into his \u201cpaddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If SpaceX confirms the debris belongs to one of its spacecraft, Tucker said a legal process must play out between Australia and U.S.government officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is becoming almost an international incident,\u201d Tucker said. \u201cNot in a bad sense \u2014 but this is how space is governed through treaties and at a national level and preserving and representing the interests of the people in Australia like Mick and Jock.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian sheep farmers discovered two large pieces of space debris and several other smaller scraps scattered in the middle of a paddock last month that may have belonged to the SpaceX Crew-1\u2019s Dragon Capsule. 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