One month after an object crashed through the roof and two floors of a home in Naples, Florida, NASA published the results of what the object really was — and why it unexpectedly fell from the sky.
The object. Credit: Alejandro Otero
NASA stated that the object was space debris, a 1.6-pound piece of a bigger 5,800-pound pallet containing old batteries that the agency released from the International Space Station three years ago. The pallet was supposed to burn up as it entered Earth’s atmosphere in March, but a small piece survived and impacted the Florida home.
The homeowner, Alejandro Otero, allowed NASA to collect and analyze the sample after attempting
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