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If you are listening to this podcast, chances are pretty good that you've heard about the problem of space junk.

The countless pieces of trash from dead satellites, old rockets, and other assorted space infrastructure orbiting our planet,

that can travel as fast as 22,000 miles per hour or more.

You may also know that at those speeds, even the smallest

pieces of debris can damage satellites and space stations. But even if you're aware that hunks of

this cosmic trash occasionally crash occasionally crash down to Earth, it probably feels like a

pretty abstract problem. After all, the world is big and full of stretches of uninhabited ocean,

and the odds of space junk falling anywhere near you specifically are close to zero.

That's how Samantha Lawler, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Regina in

Saskatchewan, used to think about space junk too. Then a farmer found a huge heap of debris not far from her own house.

For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.

I'm joined today by Samantha to hear more about her close encounter with parts of an old

SpaceX craft and the perplexing process she went through to try to get someone to deal with the

hundreds of pounds of space trash.

Samantha, how did you first hear about this particular debris?

I heard about this when a journalist sent me an email and she just asked, hey, we heard

about the space junk. I'm not

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