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If you throw something that has no propulsion system into space from a vehicle in a stable orbit, it can't hit you any harder than you threw it. That's discounting the near-astronomical odds against it managing to come back and hit you at all. The ISS will accumulate some delta-V differences with orbit changes, but I don't know how much that would be.

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