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What Happens when Space Junk Falls on Your Property?
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:16:30
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Debris from satellites, rockets and other space infrastructure are crowding low-Earth orbit. Occasionally, that space junk crashes down to Earth. For Samantha Lawler, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, such debris was mostly a theoretical nuisance. Then a nearby farmer found remnants of a SpaceX craft on his land, and Lawler was pulled into the murky legal landscape around space junk in the skies and on the ground. Recommended reading: SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighbor’s Farm. Here’s What Happened Next Space Junk Is Polluting Earth’s Stratosphere with Vaporized Metal Space Trash Threatens the Global Economy E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. Th