[geocentrism] Re: Space Debris
- From: "Dr. Neville Jones" <ntj005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:20:51 +0100 (BST)
But this stuff is orbiting. It is not just sitting there.
Bernard Brauer <bbrauer777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://discovermagazine.com/2001/dec/featshoot
Still, the real hazards are in space. Although debris in lower orbits tends
to fall and burn up in a few months or years, "once you get past 1,000
kilometers, lifetimes are on the order of a thousand years or more," Johnson
says. Because so much of what is sent into space stays up there so long, and
more is being added all the time, the density of debris in low-Earth
orbit?where the shuttle and the space station fly?doubled between 1960 and
2000.
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