I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-s

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

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Prof. Sam Lawler

Interview done. I emailed Jonathan McDowell @planet4589 to ask if he had info on a possible reentry, and he immediately found it, and even had the ground track already calculated! Thank you for this meticulous tracking, Jonathan! (Because the satellite companies sure as shit aren't sharing this info!)

It was a Dragon Trunk from the Axios 3 mission, reentered on Feb 26. The reporter is going to send me contact info for the farmer who found it, so at least I can tell him what it is.

A diagonal line across BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, showing the ground-track of the object that likely caused debris to fall in someone's field in Saskatchewan. Image CC-BY Jonathan McDowell.
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