Space debris falls to Earth from time to time. Large objects that move in sufficiently low orbits may eventually enter the atmosphere. Their speed slows down, they fall and partially burn up. And already individual fragments reach the surface of our planet.
So Lottie Williams suffered from the wreckage of one of the stages of the Delta-2 launch vehicle in 1997 in Oklahoma. A piece of metal hit her right in the shoulder. The woman was very surprised by such a miracle. A few days later, she became a real news star.
But it was just a chip. Was there more? Yes. The largest artificial object that has fallen to Earth over the past five centuries is the Mir orbital station, which was flooded in the Pacific Ocean in 2001. It looks very much like the Titanic.
