WOW: Space Junk Burns Up Over Australia

LOOK UP: A fireball was seen in the sky over Queensland, Australia on Thursday night (2/25). It was a piece of a rocket that launched a Chinese satellite in 2019 burning up as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere, according to a professor at the University of Southern Queensland, who is an astronomer and astrobiologist.

Saturday, February 27th 2021, 2:56 pm

By: CBS News


LOOK UP: A fireball was seen in the sky over Queensland, Australia on Thursday night (2/25). It was a piece of a rocket that launched a Chinese satellite in 2019 burning up as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere, according to a professor at the University of Southern Queensland, who is an astronomer and astrobiologist.

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