Space Junk Falls on Western Australian Minesite

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Space junk fell on a Western Australian mine site, sparking discussion about the potential environmental impact and the challenges of tracking and imaging space debris.

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zeristor

3 months ago

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How could one tell if there were toxic hypergolic fuel residue in the debris?

shantara

3 months ago

The standard advice is to keep your distance and contact the authorities. The debris can easily have low enough level of hypergolics to be unnoticeable, but high enough to cause health problems

plugger

3 months ago

I would like to think most of that would have been consumed, the thing was still on fire when it hit the ground.

colechristensen

3 months ago

One wouldn't easily. But assuming it may is a necessary precaution. Hydrazine is common and harmful in rather small amounts.

dsign

3 months ago

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Why is it so impossible to get high quality images of anything space-related? Even when it re-enters and is photographed on Earth?

LargoLasskhyfv

3 months ago

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Because it is still covered in residual reality distortion shreds from the field which is camouflaging all the UFOs.

andrewstuart

3 months ago

Kinda weird people don’t know this.

Weren’t they paying attention in school?

plugger

3 months ago

Because these photos were taken by miners out in the middle of nowhere with their phones.

daneel_w

3 months ago

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https://viewfromthewing.com/did-space-debris-hit-a-united-fl...

More unconfirmed images here: https://img.pr0gramm.com/2025/10/18/90eed05d6c29e0ce.png

bloggie

3 months ago

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Do you think the two events are related?

daneel_w

3 months ago

No idea. Despite no confirmations yet on whether space debris was involved, it felt relevant to share because of the overlapping nature and time frames.

andrewstuart

3 months ago

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The whole of Western Australia is a mine site so it’s pretty much a sure thing for space junk to hit a mine site if it comes down anywhere in the half of Australia.

NoPicklez

3 months ago

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Its not significant it hit a mine site, but to call out that it didn't land in the middle of nowhere.

defrost

3 months ago

True, the GP comment is also playing the Queensland is all bannanas, Tasmanian's are all inbred, <insert stereo type> card here.

There are many mines in W.Australia, there's also highly productive grain growing agricultural land larger in size than the entire United Kingdom, similarly large areas of native title and defence training land, wine growing regions, etc.

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