Harri Elizabeth Weber is a science and tech journalist in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has appeared in TechCrunch, Fast Company, Gizmodo, VentureBeat and The Next Web.
The “object from the sky” that pierced through a home in Naples, FL. last month wasn’t a meteorite after all. On April 15, NASA said the mysterious metallic cylinder—which tore through homeowner Alejandro Otero’s ceiling and floor—was actually part of a cargo pallet that contained “aging nickel hydride batteries.” The agency jettisoned the pallet from the International Space Station back in 2021, after installing new lithium-ion batteries on the artificial satellite.
Much of this stuff originates from governmental space programs, but it also comes from private companies, such as Elon Musk’s Starlink. Around a dozen objects reenter the atmosphere on a daily basis, Moriba Jah, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a call with PopSci. “It’s not uncommon for these things to survive and make it to the surface,” explained Jah, though typically they crash into the ocean.
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