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Littered Skies
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/science/20070206_ORBIT_GRA...
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64 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 22 hours agoThe destruction of a Chinese weather satellite last month added 1,000 pieces of debris to an already overcrowded orbit around earth. This is a fun little interactive to explain what's happening in the space around earth. Every dot represents a man-made object bigger than four inches.
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