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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/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.
\nBut on closer inspection \u2013 and verification from experts \u2013 he learned it had fallen from space. The Australian Space Agency (ASA) later said it came from a SpaceX capsule.<\/p>\n

Experts described the discovery as \u201crare\u201d and \u201cexciting\u201d \u2013 but said such events may become more common. 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. 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 \u2013 the vast majority of which turn out not to be space debris. \u201cThis has been super exciting to see this all up close, I\u2019ve never seen a piece of space junk fall like this,\u201d he said in a video shared online.<\/p>\n

Don Pollacco, a professor of astrophysics at the UK\u2019s Warwick University, agreed that it was very rare for space debris to hit land. 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\u2019s 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. However, discoveries on land may become more common \u2013 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. Perhaps more worrying is a study from Canada\u2019s 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 \u201calmost zero\u201d, adding: \u201cI don\u2019t think people need to be frightened, the likelihood of them getting hit is unbelievably small.
\n\u201d SpaceX did not immediately respond to the BBC\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

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