A three-metre chunk of space junk lands on a property in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales.
After his girls heard a loud blast, Mick Miners spotted the object.
ANU space specialist Brad Tucker was sent to evaluate the discovery.
He said it was part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew-1 spacecraft’s capsule.
Since November of 2020, the enormous chunk of debris has been drifting in orbit.
A massive piece of space trash from Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket has crashed into a farmer’s land in New South Wales’ Snowy Mountains.
The three-metre item was found speared into the soil on a farm south of Jindabyne when farmer Mick Miners went to check a loud explosion heard by his children.
‘This is most likely space debris from the SpaceX Crew-1 trunk,’ he stated on Ben Fordham Live on Monday.
‘SpaceX has this capsule that transports people into space, but there is a bottom section… so when the astronauts return, they leave the bottom half in space before the capsule lands,’ explains the company.
