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Posted on: October 12, 2009 7:00 PM, by Greg Laden
Cleaning Up the Orbital Neighborhood
Space debris of the man-made variety has been around ever since the first rocket launches in the late 1950s, but it was not until the end of the Cold War that the major space-faring nations began to see the growing number of leftover objects still in orbit from previous space missions as a concern.
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Cow magnets.
Posted by: Virgil Samms | October 12, 2009 8:32 PM