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A lot of space junk...but I feel safe.TwoIfByTea » 27 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ For right now the vast majority is suspended & spinning around up in space but occasionally pieces come outta orbit and fall back to earth while much just burns in the atmosphere nearly 50 Tons of space junk hits earth anually.
"But the surprising truth is that Earth is constantly being hit by space debris. Roughly 48.5 tons of meteoric material falls toward Earth every day, but 95% of it burns up in our atmosphere. Much of this cosmic dust is too small to even see, measuring less than a millimeter in size, but thousands of tons of it land on the surface of our planet every year and it's not just this space dust that's hitting Earth's surface on a regular basis. There's actually a surprising amount of other space debris that makes it to our planet, and some of it poses a real threat."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-AA1CiQti
Has anyone ever been hit by space junk?According to NPR, Lottie Williams of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the only person to have ever actually been hit by space junk. In 1997, she was hit on the shoulder by a piece of what was thought to be the Delta II rocket.
