Hello. 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.
Can you please assist with getting NASA to connect with me? I’ve left messages and emails without a response. pic.twitter.com/Yi29f3EwyV— Alejandro Otero (@Alejandro0tero) March 15, 2024
Very well. Thank you so much.
Here’s a link to the news bit on ithttps://t.co/wnggFwtaPc
— Alejandro Otero (@Alejandro0tero) March 16, 2024
So that’s 1934 UTC, which is very consistent with the Space Force estimate of reentry over the Gulf at 1929 UTC. I think you may be right and it’s a bit from the reentry of the EP-9 battery pallet
— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) March 16, 2024
This is going to start happening more often.
The United States has filled outer space with junk. The biggest culprit is Elon Musk, who just fires up whatever trash for the sake of adding more garbage in space.
But at least he keeps Twitter clean of trash like racism and antisemitism.
A Florida man was nearly hit by a piece of space junk when a small metal object tore through the roof of his home.
Alejandro Otero’s son, who was not named, had been relaxing at home on March 8 when a small metal object — that may have been from the International Space Station — came crashing through his Naples house.
“It almost hit my son. He was two rooms over and heard it all,” Otero told Wink News. “I thought a meteorite.
“I was shaking. I was completely in disbelief. What are the chances of something landing on my house with such force to cause so much damage,” Otero continued. “I’m super grateful that nobody got hurt.”
His home surveillance footage captured the sound of the object crashing through his home around 2:30 p.m.
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NASA has collected the metal object, according to Ars Technica, and is determining its origin “as soon as possible.”
Garbage from space crashing through people’s roofs is sort of hilarious. But it’s also concerning, because it could happen to anyone at any time.