Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome: A Possible Future Trapped on Earth: Creon Levit
Long Now: Conversations at The Interval
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Objects in Space Since the Dawn of the Space Age
In the solid orange circles are the collisions, and each time there's a collision, it goes up one more count. So what we see rather interestingly, and the thethe upper right hollow orange circle is literally off the chart. One of those is the iridium cosmos collision. It was not the first collision, we don't think. But it was the first one that produced a lot of debris.
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