Subject: Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida
To: sci.space.station
Enlarge / This cylindrical object, a few inches in size, fell through
the roof of Alejandro Otero's home in Florida last month. (credit:
Alejandro Otero on X)
A few weeks ago, something from the heavens came crashing through the
roof of Alejandro Otero's home, and NASA is on the case.
In all likelihood, this nearly two-pound object came from the
International Space Station. Otero said it tore through the roof and
both floors of his two-story house in Naples, Florida.
Otero wasn't home at the time, but his son was there. A Nest home
security camera captured the sound of the crash at 2:34 pm local time
(19:34 UTC) on March 8. That's an important piece of information
because it is a close match for the time-2:29 pm EST (19:29 UTC)-that
US Space Command recorded the reentry of a piece of space debris from
the space station. At that time, the object was on a path over the Gulf
of Mexico, heading toward southwest Florida.
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https://arstechnica.com/?p=2013803
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