A discarded Space Station fridge crashed into the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand Nov. 1.

Last year, Space Station astronaut Clay Anderson was left with no choice other than to toss the 1,400-pound ammonia tank into space because there was no room left on the shuttle to fly the broken fridge back to Earth, according to the United Kingdom's Daily Mail. It took more than one year for the fridge to penetrate Earth's atmosphere.

Pieces of the fridge as large as 15 pounds survived the burn up through Earth's atmosphere whereby they crashed into the sea, with little impact on humans.

While NASA normally stands against littering in space, current estimates put one million bits of space junk in orbit, including broken spacecraft pieces, nuts and frozen astronaut waste, according to the Daily Mail.