𝚂𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚔: 𝙰 𝙶𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖
There is a growing amount of junk floating around Earth. Thousands of pieces of debris from launches, nonfunctional spacecraft and fragmentation debris are all orbiting Earth.
Today one of those pieces, a rocket part which weighs around three-tonnes, is predicted to have smashed into the moon at around 5,500 miles per hour (8,851 kilometers per hour). The impact was expected to take place on the far side of the moon, so we don't know
for sure if it's happened yet.
Kessler Syndrome is a predicted phenomenon in which the amount of junk in orbit around Earth reaches a point that creates a cascade of collisions, in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.
As Earth's orbit gets increasingly crowded (there are now 6,500+ satellites in space), Kessler Syndrome gets more relevant.
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