The sky is falling. So what?
February 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM EST
Washington — Giant chunks of man-made space junk — like the dead satellite that the U.S. government is trying to shoot down — regularly fall to Earth.
Yet no one has ever been reported hurt by them.:lol:
Chunks of debris weighing
two tonnes or more from satellites and rocket parts fall uncontrolled
every three weeks or so, according to an analysis by a Harvard University astronomer who tracks satellites and space debris.
And that's just based on the last three years. Go back a decade or so when countries didn't try to control these falling objects. Back then, two-ton chunks fell to Earth much more frequently said Jonathan McDowell, who runs Jonathan's Space Report, which tracks the world's space launches and satellites.
It's likely that 50 to 200 “large” pieces of man-made space debris return to Earth every year, according to the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies. Bill Ailor, the center's director, like those at NASA's Johnson Space Center, said he was asked by the government not to comment specifically on the current satellite re-entry issue.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...y/Science/home
Amazing, how much junk we have carted up there!! Put that in dollars!!!!
Oh wouldn't that bring cries
