space junk watch out

today I read a story about space junk. It was a interesting article. The article said that there are more than 2,800 pieces of junk in the earth's gravity. The space station would test their new weapons on the old satellites. China also does this.

I read another article online that say that there is 13,000 pieces of space junk in earth's gravity. That's a lot of junk. The oldest piece of space junk is the 1958 Vanguard 1 research satellite, which stopped all functions in 1964.

These two sites each didn't have the same information. Like one said 2,800 an the other says 13,000 pieces of space junk. so one is off like 10,200 pieces of space junk or they are both wrong an it's more or less. That is a lot.