Space Junk in a Bookstore
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Space Junk - The Kessler Effect
In 1978, a NASA scientist named George Kessler came up with this theory that ended up being called the Kessler effect. And his theory was that there's going to be a point in our production of space debris where it would spiral out of control. So we are now trying to figure out ways to mitigate and fix this space debris problem. Most of these methods involve nudging the space junk just enough so that it falls back to Earth and burns up as it enters our atmosphere.
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