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SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighbor’s Farm. Here’s What Happened Next
The e-mail arrived, like a bolt from blue, on the otherwise typical Thursday afternoon of May 9. The message was from a journalist, asking me, an astronomer, for an interview about a farmer who had reportedly found space junk while prepping his fields for …