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Earth orbit turning into cosmic scrapheap
July 8, 2010 – 7:46 am | No Comment
Earth orbit turning into cosmic scrapheap

Manmade debris crowds the not-so-friendly skies
 

The most concentrated area of debris is in the region of space less than 1,240 miles (2,000 km) from Earth, known as low Earth orbit.

As dump-sites go, there’s nothing quite like Earth …