Re: [OT]: Space travel disasters by "Peter L. Peres" .

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, cdb wrote: >There was a BBC or Channel4 program on the box here in Oz not so long >ago, and it showed how a small fleck of paint can cause massive >damage when it collides with a space craft. I'm surprised that with >all the dropped spanners etc up there, more calamities haven't >occurred. Afaik there is an organization in the USA whose sole mission is to keep track of space debris. Kind of like weather bulletins for launches ;-). They also have an impressive list (thousands of items) and do not keep track of smaller items (each of which would be plenty enough to make a hole in most manned orbiting spaceraft afaik). Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics