does it interfere with gravity, I was imagining it as a still calm glass of water you drop a stone in there it effects it in several ways, so I was thinking maybe the fridge and other stuff there dumping in space might be something to do with the hurricanes effecting earth now.
2007-09-11 03:09:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I see its a unanimous NO then, I'm not thinking about when the items land back on Earth or the weight of the items more the fact that they are objects that are unnatural in the solar system, If the Moon effects the tides on Earth then something between the Moon and the tides will effect the natural flow of things.
2007-09-11 06:16:11 · update #1
Yes they did throw a fridge into space from the space station because they couldn't fit it into the shuttle returning to Earth.
2007-09-11 06:21:12 · update #2
No effect,
The scale between the Fridge and the Oceans is immesurable small. Plus by comparison, tiny particles (micro-meteorites) are falling continuously on the Earth at an estimated rate of 10,000 tons daily.
2007-09-11 03:12:09 · answer #1 · answered by RationalThinker 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Stop ad think--there's only three people on the ISS. How much trash do you think three people have? Since they have to conserve and recycle, its a lot less than any household with 3 people.
Besides, they DON'T just dump it into space--the garbage is brought back on the Shuttle. If they dump it out in zero gravity, it's just going to stay there, creating a traffic hazard.
2007-09-11 11:34:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Calculate the area of the sphere the size of the orbit and compare it to dropping a piece of paper in California.
The most common risk of the dumping is that other satellites will run into it.
2007-09-11 10:15:09 · answer #3 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ISS is many miles above the earth.
The amount of debris is miniscule compared to other
sources such as asteroids & meteors.
Weather only happens in the tiny layer below the clouds.
So no, there is not the slightest possibility of a connection.
2007-09-11 10:17:43 · answer #4 · answered by Robert S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Space starts at 30km altitude and astronauts are way beyond that.
All our weather (even the biggest hurricanes) is in the troposphere of our atmosphere.
This troposphere only goes up to 10 km.
2007-09-11 10:16:01 · answer #5 · answered by noodlemaster 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not aware that they are throwing anything out of the spacecraft, but if they are, it would burn up on re entry to the earths atmosphere, just as meteors, and other space junk has for millions of years.
I believe the answer to your question would be NO.
2007-09-11 10:15:38 · answer #6 · answered by bgee2001ca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The amount of rubbish dumped by astronauts is probably equivalent to the the rubbish dumped by a family in a year.
In the grand scheme of things - it's incredibly insignificant.
2007-09-11 10:13:53 · answer #7 · answered by mark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dubt that it has any affect at all on the weather. But leaving a lot of junk up there --does-- increase the chance that it will run into some future mission and have disasterous results.
Doug
2007-09-11 10:13:45 · answer #8 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe if it's kept up long enough it will become a future problem, though unlikely.
But orbital collisions with space debris might become more of a nuisance a lot more quickly.
2007-09-12 00:06:08 · answer #9 · answered by Jack P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
The total weight of everything that has ever orbited the planet is far less than one one millionth of one one millionth of the weight of the oceans.
2007-09-11 10:12:13 · answer #10 · answered by Brian L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋