What Happens when Space Junk Falls on Your Property?

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
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