Dangerous things that fall from the sky……… hail, parts from Boeing planes, and now pieces off the International Space Station. A chunk of metal blasted through a home’s roof and created a bit of a crater in the floor in Florida last month. NASA has confirmed that it came from the International Space Station. No biggee, right? It’s less than 2 pounds, 4 inches tall, and 1.5 inches wide………. That was travelling about 438 miles per hour. I based that on terminal velocity calculations.
It was a metal support mount that they had ejected in 2021, thinking it’d burn up in the atmosphere.
Instead, it floated around for 3 years with no one tracking it.
The hunk of space junk could have hit anywhere. If it had fallen back to Earth 5 seconds earlier, it could have landed in a swimming pool 3 houses away. If it were 15 minutes later, it could have been downtown Miami. Instead, a house where no one was home.
By the way, most homeowner policies do cover damage from meteors, asteroids, and space junk.