"Gift" from the sky: a Canadian farmer found a 40-kilogram piece of space debris in his field - probably the wreckage of a SpaceX rocket

The great astrophysicist Stephen Hawking insisted: "Look at the stars, not at your feet," meaning that you should fantasise and look to the future rather than stand still.

But as it turns out, Hawking's advice has practical benefits, as farmer Barry Sawchuk of Saskatchewan, Canada, has found out.

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While surveying his own land, the Canadian farmer discovered a giant piece of iron. At first he thought it was just rubbish, but he wondered how it had ended up in a fairly remote field.

Taking a closer look at the object, Sawchuk and his son realised that the metal was melted and was most likely the wreckage of some kind of spacecraft.

Later, a group of scientists arrived at the scene of the incident and confirmed that the object, two metres long and weighing 40 kg (!) is indeed a "gift from the sky", but not of alien origin, as science fiction fans would like, but quite earthly.

Canadian researchers believe that this is a piece of skin of the rocket company SpaceX or the spacecraft Crew Dragon.

Usually space debris burns up in the atmosphere or falls into the ocean, but in this case people were lucky that such a heavy object literally at space speed did not fall on someone's head.

Barry Sawchuk plans to sell the piece of space junk and invest the proceeds in building a hockey field in his town.

Source: CBC