Un pezzo delle batterie della ISS - rientrato il 9 marzo vedi “Three tons of trash from the space station fell to Earth in an unguided reentry” - potrebbe aver colpito una casa in [edit:] Florida.Virginia.
La notizia è stata data prima su Twitter, direttamente dal proprietario della casa con tanto di foto degli oggetti e dei danni subiti.
Looks like one of those pieces missed Ft Myers and landed in my house in Naples. Tore through the roof and went thru 2 floors. Almost his my son.
https://twitter.com/Alejandro0tero/status/1768729031493427225?s=20
Poi è stata ripresa da diverse testate, tra le quali Ars Technica.
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.
This space junk consisted of depleted batteries from the ISS, attached to a cargo pallet that was originally supposed to come back to Earth in a controlled manner. But a series of delays meant this cargo pallet missed its ride back to Earth, so NASA jettisoned the batteries from the space station in 2021 to head for an unguided reentry.