
"It was enough of a concern that the North American Aerospace Defense Command -- better known as NORAD -- called the Canadian government to let them know that a piece of space debris was headed towards Calgary.
And the debris was big: a piece of an unmanned Russian rocket, 10 square metres in size."
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