NASA is investigating the incident to determine if its recent disposal of a gigantic pallet of old batteries is to blame for the damage.
Three years ago, NASA tossed a massive pallet of old batteries from the International Space Station , hoping that it would burn up through Earth’s atmosphere. A few weeks ago, the space station’s trash finally did reenter through the atmosphere, but a piece of it may have survived and smashed through a house in Florida. On March 8, a two-pound cylindrical-shaped object crashed through the roof of a family home in Naples, Florida, creating a hole in the ceiling and the floor.
The time and location is consistent with the space station’s pallet of old batteries, but its origin and nature have yet to be confirmed. In March 2021, a 2.9-ton pallet containing nine batteries was tossed into space by the ISS’s Canadarm2 robotic arm, where it slowly spiraled towards Earth ahead of an uncontrolled reentry.
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