Space Junk

I just finished reading an article "Space Junk." It told me that in space, there is space junk because of all the rocket stages, parts from blown up satellites, human waste, and human made space junk. They want to remove the junk so they don't hit satellites and ruin them.

One of the articles said that there was 2,000 pieces of space junk. My "National Geographic" book says that there are now 300,000 pieces of space junk traveling the earth's atmosphere. The other article said that there was 13,000 pieces, including Edward White's space glove from when he lost it in his moon walk in '65. It said that his glove went around the earth at least 28,000 times until it blew up. There are also 2,500 satellites working and non-working in space.

Vanguard 1 is still in orbit and is the oldest piece of satellite space trash. A 100,000 tool bag was found in space and you could see it from a telescope. The scientists want to shoot space junk with lasers so then they could move the litter from the satellites, but if they do shoot it away it would come right back because of the Earth's orbit.