When astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost her toolbag while working outside the International Space Station last year she must have known it might return to haunt her.

Now it has: the $100,000 bag likely met a fiery death up in the atmosphere on Monday, according to the US Air Force’s Joint Space Operations Center.

“Based on its size and composition, we expect the object to completely burn up before hitting the Earth,” officials said (Space.com).

On ABC News, Ned Potter writes:

Astronaut Heidimarie Stefanyshyn-Piper may accidentally have committed the most high-tech act of littering in history. But the Earth’s atmosphere has cleaned up after her.

Image: the toolbag drifts away in November 2008 / NASA