* Astronomy

According to local officials, the wreckage of a carrier rocket that fell in Siberia after takeoff from Kazakhstan last month has been removed from land owned by a Russian shepherd.
Specialists from the Russian space agency Roscosmos travelled to the farm in the Altai Republic.

"(they) cut the fragment into parts and loaded it on a Mi-8 helicopter"  - Spokesman for the local administration.

The specialists also spoke to the shepherd, who is demanding compensation of 500,000 rubles.
The incident occurred after the launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur space centre leased by Russia in nearby Kazakhstan on February 5.
The three-and-a-half-metre  long fragment landed a few metres from the shepherd's door.
Although the  shepherd was not injured, he said the incident gave him and his children a huge fright.
No toxic traces have been found at the site of the fall.
The local administration said it would back up his claim as the fragment fell outside the designated area for rocket debris.
The Altai Republic has been used as a "cemetery" for the fallen fragments of carrier rockets launched from the Baikonur space centre for more than 40 years. Experts estimate that about 2.5 metric tons of "space waste" have fallen in unpopulated areas of the republic during this period.

Source Novosti (adapted)

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