Why don't they launch a big ball of silly putty up there and clean the orbit up? ;') ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter L. Peres" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [OT]: Space travel disasters > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, cdb wrote: > > >There was a BBC or Channel4 program on the box here in Oz not so long > >ago, and it showed how a small fleck of paint can cause massive > >damage when it collides with a space craft. I'm surprised that with > >all the dropped spanners etc up there, more calamities haven't > >occurred. > > Afaik there is an organization in the USA whose sole mission is to keep > track of space debris. Kind of like weather bulletins for launches ;-). > They also have an impressive list (thousands of items) and do not keep > track of smaller items (each of which would be plenty enough to make a > hole in most manned orbiting spaceraft afaik). -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics