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Kenya investigating fallen space debris (arynews.tv)

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NAIROBI: Kenyan officials said Wednesday they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in the country’s south.

The issue of space trash has risen in tandem with increased spatial traffic.

Kenya Space Agency (KSA) said the object, a metallic ring roughly 2.5 metres (8 feet) in diametre and weighing some 500 kilogrammes (1,100 pounds), crashed into Mukuku village, in Makueni county, on December 30 at around 3:00 pm local time (1200 GMT).

The KSA, working alongside other agencies and local authorities, “secured the area and retrieved the debris, which is now under the Agency’s custody for further investigation.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

As bad as SpaceX may be, the Chinese have been terrifyingly incompetent at avoiding space debris falling on people. Still, I don’t know if any of their rockets have a diameter like this.

Certainly could be from non-space activities, like you said.