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Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>When Mick Miners, a farmer in New South Wales, Australia, first saw a large black object sticking out of the ground in a remote part of his land, he thought it was a dead tree.<\/b><\/p>\n

But on closer inspection – and verification from experts – he learned it had fallen from space.<\/p>\n

The Australian Space Agency (ASA) later said it came from a SpaceX capsule.<\/p>\n

Experts described the discovery as “rare” and “exciting” – but said such events may become more common.<\/p>\n

The object landed on 9 July in a large area of fields, but was not discovered by Mr Miners until several weeks later.<\/p>\n

Two other pieces were later found nearby, and the ASA asked anyone who came across further items to contact a debris hotline set up by SpaceX.<\/p>\n

Dr Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at the Australian National University, was called to examine the object.<\/p>\n

He is often called to similar discoveries – the vast majority of which turn out not to be space debris.<\/p>\n

“This has been super exciting to see this all up close, I’ve never seen a piece of space junk fall like this,” he said in a video shared online.<\/p>\n

Don Pollacco, a professor of astrophysics at the UK’s Warwick University, agreed that it was very rare for space debris to hit land.<\/p>\n

While objects fall from space to Earth every day, the vast majority land in the oceans covering most of the planet, he said.<\/p>\n

What’s more, the only recorded case of a person being hit was Lottie Williams, who was unhurt when a piece of space debris landed on her shoulder in Oklahoma, US, in 1997.<\/p>\n

Other incidents include damage to buildings in Ivory Coast in 2020, from pieces of a Chinese rocket.<\/p>\n

However, discoveries on land may become more common – especially as the number of rockets sent to space has hugely increased in recent years.<\/p>\n

The Sun is also moving into a cycle of being more active, Prof Pollacco added, a knock-on effect of which may be more debris falling to Earth.<\/p>\n

Perhaps more worrying is a study from Canada’s University of British Columbia, published in July, which found there was a 10% chance of one or more people being killed by space debris in the next decade.<\/p>\n

But Prof Pollacco still says the chance of an individual being hurt is “almost zero”, adding: “I don’t think people need to be frightened, the likelihood of them getting hit is unbelievably small.”<\/p>\n

SpaceX did not immediately respond to the BBC’s request for comment.<\/p>\n

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