Space junk threatens life on Earth: comments

quoteKhamsaly, Tony

October 07, 2009, 18:35

all these space junk in the space is creating earth rings that visible at night. Some of them are falling down to earth like a shooting stars. And how could it be danger to human if it burn in the atmosphere.?

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