[geocentrism] Re: Space Debris
- From: Bernard Brauer <bbrauer777@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:33:45 -0700 (PDT)
Neville,
But then expensive operational equipment in space would
be hit and destroyed quite often. It would be too risky
to send anything new up also. No?
"Space is commonly thought of as a vast emptiness. Stars, planets, asteroids
and gaseous clouds are contained within this vast void. And this is a correct
view of most of space. But did you know that within the part of space known as
near earth orbit there is a lot more stuff in space? It's man-made junk.
Billions--BILLIONS--of pieces of old space ships, satellites, rockets are right
now orbiting the earth at speeds between about 20,000 and 25,000 miles per
hour, at altitudes from hundreds of miles to many thousands of miles around and
above the earth. What does this mean? What am I talking about? What are we
worried about?"
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/spacedeb/spacedeb.htm
Respectfully,
Bernie
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"Dr. Neville Jones" <ntj005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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