Chicken Little was Right...The Sky is Falling

Reports of "Space Junk" falling from the sky is worrisome, but lest we forget, the earth has been pounded by much larger space debris...ASTEROIDS.

"Alarmist as it all sounds, 500,000 documented hunks of cosmic junk to date float around Earth. Space programs since the Cold War have had to deal with fallout. Mostly this stuff just stays in orbit, but every once in awhile bits of space crud collide—into one another or, occasionally, us.

By Lara Heintz  http://motherboard.tv/2011/9/23/the-sky-is-falling-space-junk-s-gre...

It Fell From the Sky

 

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The Tunguska Event
Though it flattened all the trees in every direction for 30 miles, the airburst that took place over Siberia's Tunguska River left no crater behind. Scientists theorize that the blast, caused probably by a meteor or comet fragment that exploded a few miles over the surface of the Earth, was 1000 times as powerful as the bomb that fell on Hiroshima, Japan.

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It Fell From the Sky

Alarmist as it all sounds, 500,000 documented hunks of cosmic junk to date float around Earth. Space programs since the Cold War have had to deal with fallout. Mostly this stuff just stays in orbit, but every once in awhile bits of space crud collide—into one another or, occasionally, us.