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“#’Space junk’ races at 10 times the speed of a bullet<\/strong>”
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In space, no one can see the minuscule threats that risk total annihilation. <\/p>\n

Now circling Earth\u2019s orbit are more than 128 million pieces of refuse<\/a> leftover from degrading satellites, byproducts of past flight missions and other cosmic accidents \u2014 and that\u2019s just counting the debris that scientists have the ability to detect. <\/p>\n

But even the smallest specimens of space waste, such as paint chips, are anything but trivial, according to a recent report by LiveScience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Take an incident first reported in 2016 by European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake, who snapped a photo of a pea-sized dent<\/a> in the glass window of the International Space Station, left by a crumb of garbage no more than a few thousandths of a millimeter across \u2014 about the width of floss. <\/p>\n

When an object that small can cause visible damage, it\u2019s a wonder how the app<\/a>roximately 34,000 pieces of moderately sized debris \u2014 stuff larger than 4 inches \u2014 isn\u2019t wreaking more havoc for astronauts. Anything bigger than what was seen in the 2016 incident \u201cwould be catastrophic,\u201d said University of Arizona astronomer Vishnu Reddy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all comes down to velocity,\u201d Reddy told LiveScience<\/a>, adding that objects circling Earth in orbit with the ISS \u2014 around 250 miles above Earth \u2014 are moving up to 17,500 mph, according to NASA<\/a>, which is about 10 times faster than a speeding bullet.<\/p>\n

Direction also plays a role, as objects hurtling through space toward each other will suffer a more significant impact than those moving along adjacent paths \u2014 as with cars on the road, explained Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/a> aeronautics professor Kerri Cahoy.<\/p>\n

For now, the best way for astronauts to prevent such disasters includes tracking the trash and devising flight plans to avoid its path; meanwhile, scientists continue to develop new innovations for cleaning up the junk \u2014 though current means are prohibitively expensive and require years of planning.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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