Debris thrown from the ISS broke through the roof of a house in the USA (5 photos)

The fragment resembling a shell flew two floors. Fortunately, there was no one at home at that moment.





Naples (Florida) resident Alejandro Otero shared frightening photos on social networks of the consequences of debris falling onto his roof from the International Space Station. Alejandro's two-story house was pierced almost right through by a one-kilogram cylindrical object.



broken house roof

It is noteworthy that the owner of the house spoke about the incident on March 15. Through social networks, he turned to his friends and subscribers, asking them to help him contact NASA. And so, after almost a month, they paid attention to Alejandro’s post and took the “blank” for study.

Actually, there is nothing special to study there - the fall of the debris occurred on March 8 at 14:34 local time (Alejandro has a recording from a camera that recorded the sound of a rumble in the house at that moment), and this time coincides with NASA reports that it entered the Earth’s atmosphere at 14:29 debris from the ISS.





A piece of debris from a used nickel-hydrogen battery is believed to have fallen on a house in Florida. Nine of them were dropped from the ISS back in 2021; they slowly moved in orbit for three years, descending towards the Earth. It is also noteworthy that the 2.6-ton container dropped in March 2021 was the heaviest cargo ever disposed of on the ISS.

It is known that experts had previously predicted such an outcome - they reported that some of the debris might not burn up in the atmosphere, but NASA was confident that not a single part of the heavy container would survive a fall in the atmosphere. As it turns out, outside experts were right—nickel-hydrogen batteries were strong enough to survive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.



The same container with used batteries