Chances of getting hit are less than one in a trillion, reports CNBC's Morgan Brennan, with a look at the growing threat of
space junk landing on the planet.
Not exact matches
The two
land on Sakaar, a
landing spot for
space junk (the sky above the planet is Wormhole Central).
The «
land of the lost» is a kind of cosmic depot where random bits of
junk — an ice - cream truck, a motel pool — fall through a time -
space portal to be, in essence, played with by the movie's heroes.
The folks at NASA were recently unable to predict where and when a large piece of
space junk would
land — too complicated for orbital mechanics.
These
space junk cleanup concepts could potentially help to clear some of the debris which is currently littering the area around Earth, but many of them still have one major drawback - they tend to focus on getting the
junk to come back to Earth to
land in our oceans, which have enough problems without the added debris.