'If it landed on your house it would make a hell of a mess.'
Tucker highlighted the charring on the Australian debris, "which you would expect from re-entry," he toldAccording to Tucker, the debris likely came from the unpressurized portion of the spacecraft and is potentially the biggest piece of space junk ever recorded in Australia since 1979, when a piece of NASA's Skylab space station, Tucker pointed out that the trunk of the Crew-1 spacecraft "was jettisoned and stayed in orbit until re-entering on 9 July.
Wallace also pointed out the potential dangers of having massive pieces of space junk make it through the atmosphere intact."If it landed on your house it would make a hell of a mess," he added.
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