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Seismometers can track falling space junk

Earthquake sensors detect the effects of sonic booms as spacecraft enter Earth’s atmosphere

A fireball streaks across the sky high above the tops of two palm trees.

Space junk streaks through the sky over Ventura, Calif., on April 2, 2024, as falling bits of a Chinese spacecraft disintegrate in Earth’s atmosphere.

Christopher H./AMS

By Javier Barbuzano

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