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Spacejunk in Earth's atmosphere revealed
The Telegraph ^
| 4/15/2008
| Paul Eccleston
Posted on 04/15/2008 5:25:20 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
Whoever dies with the most junk in space wins? ;)
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posted on
04/15/2008 5:26:47 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: bruinbirdman
Just think. One of those has the remains of the poor cosmonaut that the Russians left up there when they couldn't get him back.
(Though there are those who claim this is "urban legend"...)
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posted on
04/15/2008 5:28:28 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
04/15/2008 5:31:33 PM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: bruinbirdman
Collisions, explosions and lost or discarded material from space flights and rockets has resulted in the atmosphere resembling a junk yard with potentially millions of pieces of metal travelling in permanent orbit 20,000 miles above the Earth.
Um, the atmosphere doesent extend to 20,000 miles. Even LEO is outside the atmosphere.
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posted on
04/15/2008 5:39:34 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: bruinbirdman
Hopefully we have enough ‘junk’ in orbit, so that if an ASTEROID heads our way, it will bounce off the junk, and careen off into space .
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posted on
04/15/2008 5:52:45 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Just saying what 'they' won't.)
To: bruinbirdman
Wow! Looks like some of those satelelites are about a thousand miles wide. ;)
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posted on
04/15/2008 6:03:24 PM PDT
by
iowamark
To: BenLurkin
“One of those has the remains of the poor cosmonaut that the Russians left up there when they couldn’t get him back.”
It wouldn’t surprise me if this was true. Any links?
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posted on
04/15/2008 6:08:52 PM PDT
by
EEDUDE
To: bruinbirdman
I think it would be more revealing if the satellites were shown to scale.
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posted on
04/15/2008 6:14:50 PM PDT
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: bruinbirdman
the objects at 20,000 miles that this article is referring too are objects in geosynchronous orbit. my sensors mission is to track said objects. geosync is populated mostly by telecomm birds because the time it takes an object to complete and orbit is the same amount of time it takes the earth to complete an orbit. it keeps the objects over the same spot throughout its orbit. that makes sure that when we are watching the superbowl it doesnt cut out every 10 minutes.
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posted on
04/15/2008 6:17:56 PM PDT
by
Clarinet_King
(Det 4 21st Operations Group - Siempre Vigilantes Del Cielo - Detect, Track, Deter HUA!)
To: bruinbirdman
Here is a live video of
more 'space junk' appearing over Mexico. Of course, the video could be a fake. Right ! It's probably a fake. But an entertaining fake any way.
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posted on
04/15/2008 6:21:26 PM PDT
by
ex-Texan
(Matthew 7: 1 - 6)
To: Army Air Corps
“Um, the atmosphere doesent extend to 20,000 miles.”
Agreed. This is so sad though. I had thought that science training in the British primary schools was more rigorous than this. Even out here in the woods in Colorado, our second graders are aware of this. It would also appear that the journalistic standards in Britain have kept pace with their primary schools.
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posted on
04/15/2008 6:32:36 PM PDT
by
Habibi
To: EEDUDE
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posted on
04/15/2008 6:34:46 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
To: bruinbirdman
I BIG bottle of Head and Shoulders ought to do the trick.
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posted on
04/15/2008 6:36:59 PM PDT
by
LiberConservative
(Part of the "Vast Typical White Guy Conspiracy")
To: Habibi
The author seems to not know where the atmosphere ends. Frankly, this is a terribly old and rehashed news item. I guess saying “Space junk in the Atmosphere!” is more exiciting than saying, “Space junk in orbit!”
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posted on
04/15/2008 6:39:27 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: EEDUDE
I think I got an email about a poor Nigeria cosmonaut the USSR stranded up there, and how his salary is just accruing in a bank account that his family needs help with getting the money...
Don't worry. Apparently, he's on a secret space station, so it's kind of hard to get away with sending anything other than supply craft. Nothing about bone loss either.
If I didn't get the email personally, then I read it, and about Nigerian email scams around the turn of the millennium.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I’d really like to get the Hasselblad camera lost on one of the Gemini missions.
To: BenLurkin
Just think. One of those has the remains of the poor cosmonaut that the Russians left up there when they couldn't get him back.
Sputnik 4 re-entered over Wisconsin in 62'. There was supposedly a "dummy" in it but there are supposedly distress messages that emanated from it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_4
To: nnn0jeh
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posted on
04/15/2008 7:22:24 PM PDT
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: Habibi
"Even out here in the woods in Colorado, our second graders are aware of this. It would also appear that the journalistic standards in Britain have kept pace with their primary schools."Second graders in the U.S. might be aware, but Time Magazine said more than a decade ago, "The threat is too grave to need scientific justification for corrective measures."
yitbos
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posted on
04/15/2008 7:25:20 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
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