Going Round And Round

And you thought that garbage is only an earthly problem?
According to NASA Orbital Debris Program Office approximately 11,000 objects larger than 10 cm are known to exist, orbiting around the Earth. Known as space debris they are remnants from rockets, and space exploration. All of this garbage is constantly tracked in order to avoid a collision. One of the Space Shuttle’s windows was once cracked by an orbiting flake of paint. I read somewhere that there is a piece of chicken and a toothbrush that escaped from MIR orbiting as well…
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