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April 28th, 2017 
Awake Goy Since the first object, Sputnik One, was launched into space 53 years ago, mankind has launched thousands of spacecraft, satellites and rockets into space.
This has created a swarm of tens of millions of pieces of debris.
The rubbish circling the planet comes from old rockets, abandoned satellites and missile shrapnel.
But it also includes a missing spatula, a lost glove and a stray toothbrush.
Bags of rubbish ejected into space by cosmonauts on board the Mir Space Station also still pose a risk.
Among the more unusual items to be added to the list of space junk was a spatula dropped by astronaut Piers Sellers while conducting repairs on the space shuttle discovery in 2006.
A tool bag was lost by astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn in 2008 and it added to the hazards in orbit until it burned up in 2009.
A glove lost by astronaut Ed White on the first US space-walk and a pair of pliers were lost during a space walk in 2007.
A speck of debris left this pit (pictured) in the window of the Challenge Space Shuttle while in orbit in 1983. Travelling at more than 17,500 mph, even tiny fragments of debris can cause considerable damage
TRACKING SPACE JUNK IN ORBIT
Nasa said it is currently tracking 500,000 pieces of debris that are larger than a marble and 20,000 that are larger than a softball.
The European Space Agency estimates there are at least 700,000 dangerous pieces of debris in orbit around the Earth.
The Russian Space Surveillance Systems is tracking more than 23,000 objects more than four inches wide.
It estimates there are 100,000 pieces half that size, 600,000 between a third of an inch and four inches across and hundreds of millions less than a third of an inch in size.
Many are pieces of old rocket and satellites while there are also objects including a spanner, dumped rubbish from Russia’s Mir space station.
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Source Article from https://worldtruth.tv/nasa-fears-that-space-debris-will-trigger-world-war-iii/
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