USA, NASA: the object that hit a house in Florida was garbage from the International Space Station

(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 16 – NASA confirmed yesterday that a mysterious object that crashed into the roof of a house in Florida last month was a piece of space junk coming from discarded equipment at the International Space Station (ISS ). The US media reported it. The cylindrical object that broke into a house in the city of Naples on March 8 was subsequently taken to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral for analysis. The US space agency said it is a metal holder used to mount old batteries on a cargo pallet for disposal. The pallet was launched from the space station in 2021, and the cargo was expected to eventually burn up completely once it entered Earth’s atmosphere, but one piece survived. The piece of metal weighs 0.7 kilos, is 10 centimeters high and 4 centimeters wide. The owner of the affected house, Alejandro Otero, said at the time that the object had torn the ceiling of the house and torn the floor. (HANDLE).