{"id":2146,"date":"2024-04-16T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/mystery-object-that-crashed-into-florida-home-last-month-was-discarded-space-junk-nasa-says\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:24:29","slug":"mystery-object-that-crashed-into-florida-home-last-month-was-discarded-space-junk-nasa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/mystery-object-that-crashed-into-florida-home-last-month-was-discarded-space-junk-nasa-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery object that crashed into Florida home last month was \u2018discarded space junk\u2019, NASA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A mystery object that fell from the sky before crashing into a home in Florida last month was a piece of space junk, NASA has said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The space agency<\/strong> said on Monday the cylindrical chunk of metal, which weighed 0.7kg (1.6lbs) and was 10cm (four inches) tall and around 4cm (1.5 inches) wide had been discarded from the <strong>International Space Centre<\/strong> in 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<p>It landed on the roof, smashing through the building and onto the floor of Alejandro Otero&#8217;s home in the city of Naples on <strong>Florida&#8217;s<\/strong> southwest coast on 8 March and was taken to the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>NASA said it was a metal support used to mount old batteries on a cargo pallet for disposal.<\/p>\n<p>The pallet was jettisoned from the <strong>space<\/strong> station three years ago, and the load was expected to eventually fully burn up on entry into the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, but one piece survived.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Mr Otero told television station WINK at the time that the object, which made a &#8220;tremendous sound&#8221;, had ripped through his ceiling and torn up the flooring, narrowly missing his son.<\/p>\n<p>He said he came home early from a holiday when his son told him what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Otero said: &#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m super grateful that nobody got hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mystery object that fell from the sky before crashing into a home in Florida&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}