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[151949]

I heard on the news they expect that space station debris to fall somewhere in the northern USA or southern Canada.Hopefully it will fall in the great lakes and just sink.They said it can't really be predicted until it starts to actually fall & they see the projectory.

[SilleeMee]

Just minutes ago SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 to deliver more 'junk' into orbit...another group of communications satellites for Iridium Communications Company. 

[SilleeMee]

How many things are orbiting the Earth? Well here's a visual for you to guess just how many.

[dex]

@SilleeMee So we have trashed the earth and space too....where do we go from there?

[SilleeMee]

I think that is one of the reasons why we, the human race, are looking to Mars. @dex I believe we will get a second chance to get things right up there. I hope I live long enough to witness the first manned landing on Mars. They are predicting the date will be around the mid 2030s. In that case the person(s) who land on Mars will be one of our young children.

[MorningLover]

The Chinese space station Tiangong-1, has finally

fallen out, crashing into the Earth’s atmosphere.

 It met a fiery end in Earth's atmosphere Sunday

April 1, breaking apart and burning up in the

skies over the southern Pacific Ocean at about

8:16 p.m. EDT 

The military has not specified precisely where 

it fell, some reports say it's somewhere 

between California and Hawaii.

A few pieces may have made it through the

atmosphere, into the ocean. But it’s likely the

majority of the space station burnt up in its

descent.

Space.com notes that what is left of the 

craft is likely covered with a toxic rocket fuel.

[dex]

I wonder how toxic the air becomes from the space junk?I think we are all going to have more respitory problems in the future.

[SeaMaiden]

 Space junk falls to Earth everyday. It is nothing new.

I am more concerned about all the plastic clogging up our oceans.... Now that is something to worry about affecting your life.....

[Noel7]

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@SeaMaidenwrote:

 Space junk falls to Earth everyday. It is nothing new.

I am more concerned about all the plastic clogging up our oceans.... Now that is something to worry about affecting your life.....

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Then it's a good thing no one said it was something new @SeaMaiden

The interest on this was the size.

[SeaMaiden]

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@Noel7wrote:

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@SeaMaidenwrote:

 Space junk falls to Earth everyday. It is nothing new.

I am more concerned about all the plastic clogging up our oceans.... Now that is something to worry about affecting your life.....

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Then it's a good thing no one said it was something new @SeaMaiden

The interest on this was the size.

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@Noel7  A poster showed a map of all the Space junk encircling the Earth.... so it was not just about size.