{"id":159229,"date":"2026-10-23T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159229"},"modified":"2026-10-23T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:00:07","slug":"rocket-debris-hitting-us-homeland-is-embarrassing-for-china-says-astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159229","title":{"rendered":"Rocket debris hitting US homeland is \u2018embarrassing\u2019 for China, says astronomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA scorched hunk of metal that turned up in a US farmer\u2019s cornfield may have handed China an awkward moment and technically an \u201cinternational incident\u201d, according to a British astronomer who has tracked rocket launches for more than 30 years.<br \/>\nThe farmer found the bowl-shaped object, measuring about 3.35 metres (11 feet) across, while harvesting corn in west-central Minnesota on October 14. Online, some residents joked that aliens had landed, while Chinese internet users said it looked like a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3371947\/rocket-debris-hitting-us-homeland-embarrassing-china-says-astronomer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA scorched hunk of metal that turned up in a US farmer\u2019s cornfield may have handed China an awkward moment and technically an \u201cinternational&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}