NASA Astronauts Lose Tool Bag During Spacewalk, Now Visible from Earth

The lost tool bag, currently orbiting Earth, poses no threat and is expected to disintegrate in the atmosphere in the coming months.

NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara accidentally lost a tool bag during a spacewalk while conducting repairs on the International Space Station (ISS). The bag is now orbiting Earth and was spotted by a Japanese colleague, Satoshi Furukawa, who was trying to photograph Mount Fuji.
The lost tool bag poses no threat to the ISS or Earth and is expected to disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere in the coming months. Flight controllers analyzed the bag's trajectory and determined that the risk of it recontacting the station is low.
The tool bag is visible from Earth with a visual magnitude of around 6, slightly less bright than the planet Uranus. Skywatchers should be able to spot it with binoculars, floating two to four minutes ahead of the ISS.
This is not the first time astronauts have lost items in space. It has happened at least four times before to NASA astronauts, including a $100,000 tool bag lost in 2008 and a glove lost by the first American spacewalker, Ed White, in 1965.
The tool bag has been given its own categorization in the U.S. space force cataloging system for artificial objects in orbit, officially designated 58229 / 1998–067WC.