An object that fell from the sky and pierced the roof and two floors of a home in the US state of Florida earlier this year did indeed come from the International Space Station (ISS), NASA, the US space agency, confirmed yesterday. On March 8, a resident of a city in the state of Florida found, and uploaded to social networking site X, a photo capturing a gray, semi-cylindrical object that he said “went through the roof and two stories” of his home, adding that it almost to beat his son. He delivered it to the space agency. The latter confirmed yesterday Monday the scenario assumed at the time: the object came from a load of spent batteries, ISS waste discarded in 2021 and it was then thought that it would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and be destroyed “without risk” to anyone. The object, weighing about 700 grams, is made of a metal alloy called Inconel, according to AFP and the Athens News Agency. NASA emphasized that it will carry out research in order to understand on the one hand […]
Source: News Beast
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