疑似中国火箭残骸落入美国，天文学家称此事令中国尴尬
Rocket debris hitting US homeland is ‘embarrassing’ for China, says astronomer
美国明尼苏达州一处玉米田发现直径约3.35米的焦黑金属残骸，英国天文学家称其可能来自中国火箭，若属实会令中国尴尬，甚至构成技术意义上的“国际事件”。太空观察人士认为，残骸可能来自9月15日发射的朱雀二号E（Zhuque-2E）；蓝箭航天（LandSpace）曾宣布该任务成功。
A scorched hunk of metal that turned up in a US farmer’s cornfield may have handed China an awkward moment and technically an “international incident”, according to a British astronomer who has tracked rocket launches for more than 30 years.
The 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 giant hotpot.
However, space observers said it most likely came from a Chinese rocket launched on September 15.
The dome appears to be the blackened end cap of a fuel tank, and it is exactly as wide as the Zhuque-2E rocket built by Beijing-based LandSpace, which had declared the mission a success.
来源：南华早报 · scmp.com