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EPISODE · Jan 5, 2022 · 4 MIN

Dr Duncan Steel: Astronomer says Russian space debris unlikely to land in New Zealand

from Holiday Breakfast · host Newstalk ZB

Earlier this week we were blown away by those amazing images of the North Island, shot from the International Space Station. A few days later we've been wondering if a giant lump of Russian space junk was going to smash into the South Island. It hasn't, but it is going to come down somewhere - and it illustrates the extreme nature of space exploration. Astronomer and space scientist Dr Duncan Steel joined Tim Dower. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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