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Very cool space junk was found in Australia this week, it's like it's out of a movie - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-29/space-junk-found-in-nsw-snowy-mou

Very cool space junk was found in Australia this week, it's like it's out of a movie - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-29/space-junk-found-in-nsw-snowy-mountains-paddocks-/101277542 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-29/space-junk-found-in-n... It'd be cool to get close to where this stuff goes down, but it's impossible. Just good luck. I think seeing the ISS come down in the pacific in 2031 would be cool. Hopefully NASA will help rather than hinder this.

peteradio 4y ago
That video is incredible. "It's kinda incredible really having this piece of space junk fallin in me uhhh ... paddy. You know think of what else is out there in uhh other people's paddies. inaudible above my children's weird minecraft videos Yeh? I suppose you wouldn't fare too well if a piece landed on yuh"
MichaelCollins 4y ago
Probably best not to get too close unless you know exactly what it is. Hydrazine is very toxic and probably carcinogenic. It would be cool to watch a reentry like that, but I don't think I'd get as close to the debris as that guy is.
- 13of40 4y ago
  It looks like it might be made of carbon fiber as well, which tends to burrow into bare skin when you touch it. I definitely wouldn't take a selfie with my hand resting on it like that guy. I'm not sure they still do it, but Soyuz(?) used to have a radiation source on the bottom to use as a kind of altitude detector, so if one of those broke up there could be another surprise for someone who found debris.
throwaway4good 4y ago
Imagine the coverage of this had that thing been Chinese.
- mlindner 4y ago
  It would have been marginally increased compared to what it got, however this thing is not a 20+ ton object like the Chinese stage. It's a few hundred kg. The western press hasn't cared about other re-entering Chinese stages until they start lofting entire main stages into orbit much larger than almost anything in history to re-enter. (The only things larger to re-enter uncontrolled were full space stations, which has only occurred a couple times in history.)

peteradio 4y ago

That video is incredible. "It's kinda incredible really having this piece of space junk fallin in me uhhh ... paddy. You know think of what else is out there in uhh other people's paddies. inaudible above my children's weird minecraft videos Yeh? I suppose you wouldn't fare too well if a piece landed on yuh"

MichaelCollins 4y ago

Probably best not to get too close unless you know exactly what it is. Hydrazine is very toxic and probably carcinogenic. It would be cool to watch a reentry like that, but I don't think I'd get as close to the debris as that guy is.

13of40 4y ago
It looks like it might be made of carbon fiber as well, which tends to burrow into bare skin when you touch it. I definitely wouldn't take a selfie with my hand resting on it like that guy. I'm not sure they still do it, but Soyuz(?) used to have a radiation source on the bottom to use as a kind of altitude detector, so if one of those broke up there could be another surprise for someone who found debris.

throwaway4good 4y ago

Imagine the coverage of this had that thing been Chinese.

mlindner 4y ago
It would have been marginally increased compared to what it got, however this thing is not a 20+ ton object like the Chinese stage. It's a few hundred kg. The western press hasn't cared about other re-entering Chinese stages until they start lofting entire main stages into orbit much larger than almost anything in history to re-enter. (The only things larger to re-enter uncontrolled were full space stations, which has only occurred a couple times in history.)