{"id":46968,"date":"2022-08-02T13:13:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T04:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/chinese-china-rocket-re-entry-suspected-space-debris-lands-malaysia-indonesia"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T04:13:53","slug":"chinese-rocket-re-entry-suspected-debris-lands-in-malaysia-and-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46968","title":{"rendered":"Chinese rocket re-entry: suspected debris lands in Malaysia and Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charred ring of metal five metres in diameter found in Kalimantan and smaller piece discovered in Sarawak, Malaysia<\/p>\n<p>Debris suspected to be from a Chinese booster rocket that made an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/31\/nasa-criticises-china-after-space-rocket-makes-uncontrolled-return-to-earth\">uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday<\/a> has reportedly been found metres from villages in Malaysia and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>A charred ring of metal about five metres in diameter was found on Sunday in Kalimantan, Indonesia, according to a Malaysian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZiISj1IiYko\">news outlet<\/a>. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the metal appeared to be the exact size of the Chinese rocket\u2019s core stage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/chinese-china-rocket-re-entry-suspected-space-debris-lands-malaysia-indonesia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charred ring of metal five metres in diameter found in Kalimantan and smaller piece discovered in Sarawak, MalaysiaDebris suspected to be from a Chinese booster rocket that made an uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday has reportedly been found metr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,156,70,299,297,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-indonesia","category-malaysia","category-science","category-space","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46968\/revisions\/46969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}