“NASA has recovered an object in collaboration with the owner,” a spokesperson said. It will be “analyzed as soon as possible at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to determine its origins.”
The object weighing less than one kilogram is said to have pierced the roof of a home in Naples, Florida on March 8. The owner of the home posted photos on X on March 15 of a gray tubular object and a hole in a wooden floor. The object “pierced the roof and two floors,” he wrote in the post, and “closely hit my son.”
NASA had unloaded a pallet of old batteries from the ISS in 2021. In March, the space agency said it had conducted an extensive analysis and concluded that the pallet would be “without risk of being released into the atmosphere.” That was expected to happen on March 8.
According to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, due to the time the homeowner communicated and the location, it could very well be part of the cargo.
Trash falls from space every now and then. For example, in 2022, Australian authorities confirmed that a charred piece of space debris from a SpaceX aircraft had ended up in a sheep pasture.
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