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A spate of recent extraterrestrial accidents is giving a new urgency to international efforts to decrease the danger posed by space junk, the remains of rockets ad derelict satellites that have been accumulating in Earth’s orbit for 50 years. NASA space shuttles and the International Space Station recently survived close encounters, and a U S communications satellite was destroyed in February when it hit a obsolete Russian satellite.

“Unfortunately, we will see more collisions,” says Williams Ailor, director of the center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies at the Aerospace Corporation. “There’s an awful lot of debris up there.”

NASA currently follows 17,000 orbiting objects and has set rules to limit the litter its missions produce.
Cleaning up the existing waste, however, remains “a technical and economic challenge.” Options might include retrieving debris or moving it into less populated orbits.

NASA says space junk remains a threat to “the safety of persons and property in space and on Earth.” Traveling at more than 20,000 mph, even a tiny piece of debris could cause catastrophic damage to spacecraft, including satellites that relay cellular phone calls and other critical voice data communications around the globe.


Source: LA Times Sunday Magazine (ako nabasahan ako ra sad gi copy, para adtong niingon nga mahulog ra sad daw balik ang space junk! )

i thought NASA pipol are inteligent! had they not anticipated it before inspite of their knowledge and mathematical computation on trajectory? then USA should pay on the inflected damage when these space junk will damage earthly positions and life!

regards mdb! 

If you're not a space scientist or head of state, this reported junk orbiting Earth should not be your concern.  You should be more worried about the debris around Uranus.

We should be worried more about 12/21/2012 Solstice of 21 December 2012.

hubag, what's your point meyn?

Quote from: buwadsanga on July 16, 2009, 08:48:53 AM
hubag, what's your point meyn?

bitaw meyn? wa ko ka GET!

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on July 15, 2009, 10:17:16 PM
We should be worried more about 12/21/2012 Solstice of 21 December 2012.

hala di ba mao man na ang longest darkness sa winter, Macky?

we call that winter sostice di ba?

Quote from: buwadsanga on July 16, 2009, 08:48:53 AM
hubag, what's your point meyn?

He he he. Basahag usab ang words nga, "debris around Uranus", meyn. Ha ha ha.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 16, 2009, 09:18:24 AM
He he he. Basahag usab ang words nga, "debris around Uranus", meyn. Ha ha ha.

or your NOSE?

kabasa bitaw ko ana! hahaha!

libog ra si Buwad!

Ha ha ha. Problema jud ni kay katol-katol!

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 16, 2009, 02:20:04 PM
Ha ha ha. Problema jud ni kay katol-katol!

kegwa! hahhahahha

Quote from: ms da binsi on July 18, 2009, 11:05:07 AM

kegwa! hahhahahha

Ha ha ha. Living debris, morag green slime!

hahahhahaha!

gremlins!

Ha ha ha. Lisod ang gremlins, kay kon mabasa sa tubig, manghubag, mako jamo!