Comment on 5,800 pounds of batteries tossed off the ISS in 2021 will fall to Earth today

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Reentry of the EP-9 battery pallet jettisoned from ISS in 2021 is currently predicted (by Space Force) between 1230 UTC Mar 8 and 0830 UTC Mar 9. It will not totally burn up on reentry - about half a tonne of fragments will likely hit the Earth’s surface.

Uh, I don’t know anything but - it seems like a half-tonne of nickel falling from space would be bad? Is this a “we calculated it will land in the Pacific” or a “Well, good luck everyone” sort of situation?

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