A giant piece of space debris from Elon Musk’s SpaceX has landed on a farm in southern NSW

A giant piece of space debris from a passing spacecraft Elon Muskof SpaceX torpedoed a farmer’s property in the Snowy Mountains NSW.

The three-metre object – part of the SpaceX Crew-1 spacecraft – was discovered speared into the ground on a property south of Jindabyne after farmer Mick Miners went to investigate a loud noise heard by his daughters.

Australian National University space expert Brad Tucker told radio host Ben Fordham that he had been called in to investigate the discovery.

“This is definitely space debris that is part of the SpaceX Crew-1 body,” Ben Fordham said on Monday morning on Live.

“SpaceX has this capsule that takes people into space, but it has a bottom … so when the astronauts come back, they leave the bottom in space before the capsule lands.”

Farmer Mick Miners (pictured) discovered a giant piece of space junk stuck on his property in the Snowy Mountains south of Jindabyne.

Australian National University astronaut Brad Tucker has confirmed he is part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew-1 (pictured)

The part has been in space since November 2020 and has begun de-orbiting, Mr. Tucker said.

“The plan was for it to land on Earth and deliberately hit the Earth’s atmosphere so it would break up and land in the ocean,” he said.

It is understood a large number of people in southern NSW saw the explosion and heard a loud bang as it hit Mr Miners’ farm.

“We saw most of the pieces fall into the ocean, but it’s clear some didn’t because this three-meter piece was speared from space,” Mr Tucker said.

I said that the object landed quite a distance from Mr. Miners house, so it took some time to locate it.

“From a distance it almost looks like a tree, like a burnt tree, and then you get closer and you realize, ‘hey, that’s not right,'” Mr. Tucker said.

Mr. Miners’ neighbor Jock also had a piece of space junk on his property.

“The Australian Space Agency is dealing with it now because there’s actually a legal protocol … technically it still belongs to SpaceX,” Mr Tucker said.

The Australian Space Agency is now involved in the recovery of the debris – a piece (pictured) of Elon Musk’s SpaceX-operated Crew-1 spacecraft.

“We assume they don’t want it back because the whole point was to break it in the ocean.

“Now if SpaceX says they want it back, then they have to pay Mick and Jock to get it all back.

“But if they can keep it, they have options like giving it to a museum, selling it on eBay.”

Mr. Tucker said there will be plenty of people who want to collect space debris.

“They’re getting paid a tidy sum for all the trouble they’ve gone through,” he said.