Australia: This object fell from space into a farmer’s field (PICTURES)   

And it’s probably a remnant of a SpaceX spacecraft

Mick Miners is an Australian farmer who owns a sheep farm in Numbla Vale, New South Wales, an area located in the south-eastern tip of Australia. Where everything was going smoothly, an unusual surprise awaited him at the beginning of July, after a huge object almost three meters high fell from space and landed on his land, where it was pinned to the ground! In fact, Jock Wallace, owner of another nearby farm, also reported a similar strange object falling in his own fields.

What exactly happened? Many local residents reported a loud bang on July 9 , which was heard across the state. The noise is believed to be related to the re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere of part of a SpaceX ‘Dragon’ spacecraft .

To find out what it is about, Dr. Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist from the Australian National University’s College of Science, visited the farms and inspected the objects himself. After examining them, the professor now believes that the debris comes from the part of the spaceship that houses the crew. In fact, he emphasizes that they were probably traveling at a speed of about 25,000 kilometers per hour , heading across the ocean between Australia and New Zealand.

Dr. Brad Tucker added:

In the photos of the wreckage you can clearly see charring, which is from the re-entry. It is very rare to see because usually these pieces do not land on land, but in the ocean. People often think they find small pieces of space junk, but they burn up on re-entry, so it’s more likely to find large pieces like this.

Meanwhile, speaking to Space.com , Rebecca Allen from Swinburne University of Technology added:

This shows that even though most of the space junk is supposed to burn up in the atmosphere… large chunks get through. This is quite alarming and shows that it is critical to monitor the debris. There could even be issues with ozone depletion, so we need to do more research in this area.

The following is relevant photographic material from the event in Australia.