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It is still not clear what exactly fell onto a Kenyan village last month, but such events are likely to become increasingly common given the amount of space debris drifting above the planet.
Christophe Bonnal, a French specialist in space debris, said the debris might have come from a military launcher. "They are armored, which fits with the fact that it is very big and heavy," he said.
It is not even certain that what crashed in Kenya came from outer space. But for Romain Lucken who runs Aldoria, a French start-up that tracks debris in space, it is "absolutely plausible" that it ...