No one was hurt by the object, believed to be part of a launch rocket. Experts say the frequency ... they re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere or to fall over unoccupied areas, such as the oceans ...

However, there was the possibility for pieces of the rocket to come down over a populated area, as they did in May 2020 when properties in Ivory Coast were damaged. Before crashing, the empty ...

weighs about 500 kilograms and is most likely a fragment from a rocket. “Such objects are usually designed to burn up as they re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere or to fall over unoccupied areas ...

Many thought it was a meteor shower or a comet - however experts say it was a piece of space junk re-entering Earth's atmosphere, which had come from a Chinese rocket involved in a recent space ...