There is plenty of space junk , space debris, orbital debris or space waste. These are the human objects that orbit around Earth that no longer serve any useful purpose. They consist of everything from entire spent rocket stages, defunct sa...
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Space debris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Space debris , also known as orbital debris , space junk and space waste , are objects in orbit around Earth created by humans that no longer serve any useful purpose. They consist of everythin...
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Space junk, the garbage in Earth orbit that threaten's space craft and creates meteors. ... The distribution of space junk around Earth. ... Space junk in Low Earth Orbit.
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www.space.com/spacewatch/space_junk.html
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Each dot represents a bit of known space junk that's at least 4 inches (10 cm) in low-Earth orbit, where the space station and shuttles roam. In total, some 19,000 manmade objects this size or bigger orbit Earth as of July 2009;
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www.space.com/news/090912-space-junk-images.html
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Like the Earth's environment, the space environment is getting more and more cluttered. There are currently MILLIONS of man-made orbital ruins that make up "space junk". Unfortunately, the past 45 years of space exploration have generated a lot of junk!
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www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/games/junk_intro.html
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Space around Earth is filling up with human-made debris, adding risk to human and robotic space missions. Experts say it's time to collect large pieces of old junk. ... Scientists say the orbital debris, better known as space junk, poses an increasing threat to space activities, including robotic missions and human...
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Information about space debris that floats around the Earth. ... 'Space junk' or 'space debris' is any artificial rubbish orbiting the Earth ... There may be over a million pieces of space junk currently orbiting the Earth. However, all but 9,000 of these are smaller than a tennis ball...
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www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/earth/spacejunk...
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Many of these are debris from payloads and rocket bodies, called "space junk." On any clear evening, you have an excellent chance of seeing a satellite about 1 to 1 1/2 hour after sunset. Most will be observed in north-south or south-north orbit.
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octopus.gma.org/surfing/satellites/spacejunk.html
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On McKnight's desk is a photograph showing the thousands of other pieces of debris generated by the test, which McKnight, a vice-president of a company called Titan Research and Technology, and other researchers carried out to simulate the collision of a satellite with a piece of orbiting space junk.
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www.theatlantic.com/issues/98jul/junk.htm
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