More than 40,000 large objects are tracked in orbit, and millions of tiny ones. At 28,000 km/h even a paint fleck is a bullet.
Imagery:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Y. Beletsky/ESO
ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
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