How many track able objects are in orbit right now? How many of them are functioning satellites?

Answer 1

Joe,
Check out this website for tracking satellites and other objects. http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/JTrack/
The amount of objects we will never know. Also look at the layers of orbits. This software is really nice.

Answer 2

Your answer is here:
http://ask.yahoo.com/20010116.html

However this does not include space "junk" in orbit--- like a dropped tool or a bolt that came off of a rocket booster sometime in the past............. or the golf ball one of the astronauts hit while doing a spacewalk.