Sentences with phrase «orbital debris larger»
There are more than 21,000 pieces of orbital debris larger than 3.9 inches (10 centimeters) in Earth's orbit.
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Team leader Mauri Valtonen of the University of Turku in Finland used equations derived from Einstein's theory of general relativity to show that the pulses could be caused by a small, orbiting black hole plunging into the debris disk around the larger one, situated at one end of the orbital ellipse.
The debris clouds, initially distributed along the orbital paths of the satellites, are spreading to enshroud the entire planet, joining the roughly 19,000 large chunks of orbiting space junk (as seen in this image) already tracked by the Department of Defense.
On March 6, 2008, the Cassini mission reported evidence of orbital debris around Saturn's second largest moon Rhea (which is around 950 miles or 1,530 kilometer wide).