Outer Space: Outer Trash

Today I read two articles about space junk. Lemme tell ya: It's reeeeeally hard to rid of. Space junk mostly is created when rockets blow up, or when an existing piece of junk crashes into a fully-functional sattelite, thus smashing into a zillion pieces. Computers back on Earth can track where most of this trash is. But only the clutter that is larger that, say, the size of a grapefruit. The other ka-jillion pieces...well.... we can only hope they won't hurt any astronauts.

On average, one piece of space junk falls from space into Earth's atmosphere per-day. One time, a piece even hit a person on the head, but she was not harmed.

Space junk can consist of anything! From gloves, to tool bags, to chips of paint! And the small things, like chips of paint and just tiny pieces of metal, believe it or not, can be the more life threatening.

When some astronauts are in a rocket, and a piece (miniature) of metal comes flying their way, it could tear a colassal hole right in the rocket, costing the astronauts their lives.