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In March 2021, NASA released a cargo pallet from the International Space Station carrying nickel hydride batteries. They hoped that the hardware would burn up on re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere, but a 700-gram piece survived the process and smashed into a home in Naples, Florida. NASA collected the debris and confirmed its source. They're working to figure out how the debris survived the journey into the atmosphere to prevent it from happening again.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/04/15/nasa-completes-analysis-of-recovered-space-object/