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NASA Confirms Debris That Hit Florida Home Was Trash From ISS
UPI ^ | APRIL 17, 2024 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 04/18/2024 2:37:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

NASA confirmed an object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home was indeed garbage jettisoned from the International Space Station.

The cylindrical object crashed through Alejandro Otero's roof in Naples, Fla., on March 8, and the sound of the crash was recorded by the homeowner's Ring camera.

The object was taken by NASA to be examined, and the space agency has now confirmed it was indeed the remains of a 5,800-pound cargo pallet of depleted nickel hydride batteries that was jettisoned from the ISS in March 2021.

"The hardware was expected to fully burn up during entry through Earth's atmosphere on March 8, 2024," NASA said in a statement. "However, a piece of hardware survived re-entry and impacted a home in Naples, Florida."

The 1.6-pound piece of debris, measuring about 4 inches long, was identified as "a stanchion from the NASA flight support equipment used to mount the batteries on the cargo pallet," NASA said.

NASA said the ISS will conduct an investigation to "determine the cause of the debris survival and to update modeling and analysis, as needed."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; iss; nasa
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To: nickcarraway

NASA is trashing the planet!


21 posted on 04/18/2024 4:06:47 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: nickcarraway

Was it a tool bag?


22 posted on 04/18/2024 4:18:10 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: nickcarraway; Rennes Templar
The cylindrical object crashed through Alejandro Otero's roof in Naples, Fla.,

wiki:

"Otero is a Spanish surname, and an occasional given name, derived from the Spanish word for height, and indicating a family history of having come from a geographically high place."

23 posted on 04/18/2024 4:18:58 PM PDT by Ezekiel (šŸ†˜ļø "Come fly with US". šŸ”“ Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ā™‚ļø, aka every man)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m not ‘allowed’ to burn trash in a 55 gal barrel.
My wood stove is supposed to have a catalytic converter.


24 posted on 04/18/2024 5:33:45 PM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: nickcarraway
"Burn up" NICKEL? And the stainless steel cases? Come ON!

Sounds more like fusing everything together into a white-hot four-ton asteroid. It's a wonder that didn't blow the neighborhood off the map.

25 posted on 04/18/2024 5:38:07 PM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live; the joy of living: to teach. Fiat Lux!)
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To: nickcarraway

I misread title and thought it was trash from ISIS.


26 posted on 04/18/2024 5:40:28 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: nickcarraway

Which country pays for the damage? Certainly the homeowner did not have ISS Trash damage insurance.

What about the rest of us? Can we go back outside now or do we all need a class action attorney to take down the most wasteful program ever?


27 posted on 04/18/2024 5:47:34 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III
HIGHLY recommend Robert Zimmerman.

Thanks for the link. Zimmerman is always good.

28 posted on 04/18/2024 6:34:36 PM PDT by TChad
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To: nickcarraway

https://youtu.be/ngAVcnGLyTU?si=DOaZSaqkqOgxd4ci

29 posted on 04/18/2024 6:49:05 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Thanks for the Zimmerman link


30 posted on 04/18/2024 6:54:13 PM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: V_TWIN

“Well, if I remember high school geography....about 3 to 1.”

Closer to 1 to 3.


31 posted on 04/18/2024 7:17:48 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Gaffer

Iā€™d find me the biggest shyster lawyer I could and sue them.


32 posted on 04/19/2024 4:49:38 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When Islam dominates democracy, freedom and non-Islamic people die)
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To: nickcarraway

“nickel hydride” = NiMH?

I’m guessing that though heavier and less energy dense, there is much less risk of fire than from lithium types?

...Until re-entry, that is. ;-)


33 posted on 04/22/2024 1:39:43 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: imardmd1

The battery packs would break up. Thin steel cases (even if, say, 14 ga.?) would burn away quickly too. A solid chunk from a stanchion - yeah, looks like at least in certain circumstances, that could knock your noggin!

Heinlein’s “Loonies” bombed the Earth with 100 ton boulders encased in steel. He never did specify how thick the steel was... Babylon 5’s Centauri bombed the Narn homeworld with “mass drivers” that looked like boulders, too. A lot of the weapons in that series were specified in fairly good detail, but I never saw anything on the mass drivers. They were supposedly outlawed as WMD, but never mind that other species, even the humans, had weapons deployed that were just as destructive. (Sometimes they were just a whole bunch of big nukes — the “Shadows” had what amounted to super-duper nuclear bunker busters, and the Vorlons had a weapons beam that could blow planets apart...)


34 posted on 04/22/2024 2:05:32 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: BobL

Well, if Hell is at the beginning of the Earth’s mantle, the surface of this thing could have been even hotter... The Earth’s core is another story.

Huh, does one end up deeper if a greater unrepentant sinner than just your average unbeliever? ;-)


35 posted on 04/22/2024 2:12:57 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: nickcarraway

1.6 pounds of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel


36 posted on 06/23/2024 8:41:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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