[Diana in Wisconsin]

Whoever dies with the most junk in space wins? ;)

[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.

(Though there are those who claim this is "urban legend"...)

[Bender2]

Bump to orbit later!

[Army Air Corps]

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.

[UCANSEE2]

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 .

[iowamark]

Wow! Looks like some of those satelelites are about a thousand miles wide. ;)

[Boiler Plate]

I think it would be more revealing if the satellites were shown to scale.

[Clarinet_King]

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.

[ex-Texan]

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.

[LiberConservative]

I BIG bottle of Head and Shoulders ought to do the trick.

[kalee]

ping