On the 8th of last month, at a home in Florida, USA.
Wasted battery fragments fall from space
It has enough destructive power to pierce roofs, ceilings and floors.
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Mr. Otero, who lives in Florida, USA, has a hole in the floor of his house due to fragments of waste batteries discarded from the space station. Photo = Daily Mail
An accident occurred when battery fragments, believed to have been discarded from the International Space Station (ISS), fell into a home in the United States, hitting the ceiling and floor.
According to the British Daily Mail on the 2nd (local time), battery fragments fell on the house where Alejandro Otera, who lives in Florida, USA, lives, on the 8th of last month. The impact of this fragment was so great that it hit the ceiling and second floor floor. Mr Otera said his son, who was home on vacation, received a call saying “there was a huge noise and there was a hole in the ceiling and floor.”
In an interview with local media outlet Wink TV, he said, “When the unidentified object hit the ceiling, my son in the other room heard a huge crash sound. When we first heard the story, we couldn’t believe it, but on the other hand, the object “I thought it was a meteorite,” he said.
Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell described it as the EP-9 battery pallet that NASA dropped from the International Space Station (ISS) in March 2021. “It would have re-entered over the Gulf of Mexico between Cancun and Cuba,” he said, sharing a capture from a space object tracking site.
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Waste battery fragments that Mr. Otero took pictures of and posted on his social networking service (SNS). Photo = Alejandro Otero X capture
NASA has currently requested that the object be collected and sent to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for analysis. If it is confirmed to be an actual NASA part, the Otero family can seek compensation under federal law.
It is known that there are currently more than 30,000 pieces of space debris floating around in space, and there is a high possibility that they will fall to Earth within a few years. Most of them burn up in the atmosphere during re-entry to Earth, but some survive and fall into habitats, as in this accident. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration also predicted that there will be casualties or property damage every two years until 2035.
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