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A Minnesota Farmer Found an 11-Foot Metal Object in His Cornfield. It Came From Space
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A Minnesota Farmer Found an 11-Foot Metal Object in His Cornfield. It Came From Space

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It’s raining rocket debris. Suspected fragments from Chinese rockets have turned up in places as far apart as Minnesota and Indonesia, raising concerns about the dangers posed by falling space junk.

A farmer in rural Minnesota was working on his cornfield when he discovered a circular metal object approximately 11 feet wide (3 meters wide), according to the Stevens County Sheriff’s Office . The object likely came from a Chinese rocket that launched more than a month earlier and reentered through the atmosphere over Kansas toward Minnesota.

Thousands of miles from Minnesota, a suspected fragment of another Chinese rocket turned up in Indonesia. Local authorities are investigating a car-sized piece of debris that was found in a palm oil plantation near homes and work sites.

China has been known to be careless when it comes to its rocket bits falling from the skies, with numerous incidents reported over the last few years.…

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