2.6 tons of batteries and the pallet they were mounted on were supposed to burn up in the atmosphere. Not all of it did, and Alejandro Otero's house was hit with a 0.7 kg nickel-chromium cylinder from space.

https://www.space.com/object-crash-florida-home-iss-space-junk-nasa-confirms

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Object that slammed into Florida home was indeed space junk from ISS, NASA confirms

It was part of a pallet jettisoned along with 5,800 pounds of aging batteries back in March 2021.

^{Mike Wall (Space)}