Space junk falls on Western Australian minesite

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-19/wa-space-debris-reentry-investigation/105909612

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Comments

zeristor•3mo ago

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

colechristensen•3mo ago

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

shantara•3mo 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•3mo ago

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

dsign•3mo ago

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•3mo ago

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

andrewstuart•3mo ago

Kinda weird people don’t know this.

Weren’t they paying attention in school?

plugger•3mo ago

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

daneel_w•3mo ago

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

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

bloggie•3mo ago

Do you think the two events are related?

daneel_w•3mo 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•3mo ago

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•3mo ago

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

defrost•3mo 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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