i mean, if it's orbiting, it's gonna come back down eventually, right?
2007-09-22 01:48:31 · 10 answers · asked by kelleygaither2000 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
instead of death, we might all get a taco instead
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2007-09-22 02:36:05 · answer #1 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Something orbiting might not ever come down - some things will get further and further out until they leave the solar system completely!
The danger of all the junk up there is trying to fly through it - even tiny bits of metal up there pose considerable risk to space shuttles since they can be travelling incredibly fast.
2007-09-22 09:13:57 · answer #2 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
large objects like the space station will but smaller space "junk" burns up in the atmosphere. If your talking about wiping out the planet...no. Possibly hitting a house a killing a few people? A very slim chance.
2007-09-22 08:56:22 · answer #3 · answered by joem 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no not necesarily rember the moon orbits us and instead of getting closer to us it is actually getting further away. Anyway even if the tiny amount of rubbish that we can actually afford to get up there comes back down it would have to be sever tens of metres squared to even get through our atmosphere anyway
thanks for asking
Jamie P
2007-09-22 09:14:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Naw, old satellites and stuff do crash to earth from time to time. They watch the stuff and make sure that its going to land safely. There was one incident of a russian spy satellite about the side of a sedan landing in michigan in the 60s. They thought the writting must be alien and when the gov't came and grabbed it, they figured it was a UFO coverup. However, they US gov't had been monitoring it and waiting for it to crash, the russians thought it was going to crash in Canada.
2007-09-22 09:05:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most of the junk up there would burn up upon re-entry into the earths gravity. The Falling or shooting stars that we see are only particals of astoroids burning up in the earth's gravitational pull.
2007-09-22 09:49:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well its orbiting like the moon but if it came closer earth's gravity becomes stronger and might pull it down and i hope not on me but it'll burn up in the atmosphere and chances on hitting any thing on earth are slim to none
2007-09-22 08:57:15 · answer #7 · answered by Dried_Squid 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everything that we've launched into space is closely monitored. Nothing that we have launched is large enough to "take us out" so I wouldn't worry.
2007-09-22 08:56:19 · answer #8 · answered by Adam K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah its absolutely correct!Another way is to use laser and demolish that junk...still research is going on the effective method to remove space debris.
2007-09-22 09:56:36 · answer #9 · answered by Sandeep Sagar G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i only hope its soon
2007-09-22 08:55:52 · answer #10 · answered by martinmm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋