From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 01:39:30 MDT
"TT" <transtigger@aol.com>:
> then the amount of items in low earth orbit may increase
> significantly.
>
> I read somewhere that this could eventually increase the probability of
> collision to such a point nothing could get through - and we'd have
>imprisoned
> ourselves on earth! I don't know how much credibility there is in that, but
> might it be wise to do an orbital clean up of junk from time to time?
>
This is kinda what it looks like (see map of orbiting debris)
http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Hazard/Hyper/debris.htm
Good luck with the clean up! :-(
Amara
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