A physicist says it's 'quite possible' a SpaceX launch punched a hole in parts of the Earth's atmosphere

• A physicist says a SpaceX rocket may have punched a temporary hole in the ionosphere.
• The ionosphere is where Earth's atmosphere meets space.
• Jeff Baumgardner, a physicist from Boston University, made the comment to Spaceweather.com.

A space physicist has said it's "quite possible" that a SpaceX rocket launched earlier this month made a hole in the Earth's ionosphere.