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An apparent meteor shower over the Pacific Northwest was actually burning space debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket – take a look – Business Insider Australia
The space junk, which people first thought was a meteor shower, was actually debris from a SpaceX mission, the National Weather Service said.
- Debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was streaking across the skies above Seattle and Portland on Thursday.
- Astronomer Jonathan McDowell tweeted that it would probably fall in the Rockies near the Canadian border.
- The space junk was from Starlink’s 20th mission at the start of May, he said.
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The bright lights hurtling across the sky in the Pacific Northwest on Thursday were made by burning space debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket falling back to Earth.
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