“Earth is on course to have its own rings. They’ll just be made of junk.” ByShirin Ali | Nov. 23, 2021https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.489.0_en.html#goog_4666543610 seconds of 2 minutes, 44 secondsVolume 20%
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- NASA says that there are more than 27,000 pieces of space junk being tracked by the Department of Defense.
- Space junk travels at extremely high speeds, which equals approximately 15,700 mph in low Earth orbit.
- With a growing commercial space industry, the volume of space junk is expected to grow significantly.
As more and more debris accumulates in space and surrounds Earth’s orbit, one researcher believes our planet will eventually develop rings made completely of space junk.
Jake Abbott, a robotics professor at the University of Utah,told The Salt Lake Tribunethat “Earth is on course to have its own rings. They’ll just be made of junk.”
Abbott was part of a team of researchers…
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