Dangerous Debris From India’s Exploded Satellite Still Orbiting Earth

When Indian authorities shot down a satellite with a missile on March 27, they estimated that the remains of the satellite would decay within 45 days. But that’s not quite what happened. Six weeks later — past that promised date — astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics are still tracking some 41 debris objects left out of 400 originally identified in Earth’s orbit. And for it all to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, it would take at least another “year or so,” as the Independent reports. More

(Source: Futurism - Jun 28)