We've companies and missions already looking at space garbage collection

I thought India and a few other European countries had space race interests?

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The video images were of 25,000 miles away but it came within 2,500 miles or so at its closest.

>As more and more pieces of debris accumulate in Earth orbit, collisions between them can generate even more fragments in a frightening theoretical ripple effect known as the Kessler Syndrome. If left unmitigated, the theory proposes that cascading space debris impacts could someday hinder humanity's space ambitions by rendering the space around Earth unpassable.

Wow. That's incredible. I wonder what could be done to reduce space junk if it gets to that point. Would it just be unfixable?

If it was actually 5 secs I wouldn’t have an issue but they get greedy and lazy. The ads get longer and longer more often unskippable, more frequent, and they show the same damn ones a million times over. It’s their own damn fault I want to block them.

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The title is correct. The asteroid was imaged at ~13,000 miles.

Sources:Website of astronomer cited in Newsweek (warning ads):

https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2023/01/27/near-earth-asteroid-2023-bu-extremely-close-encounter-image-video-and-podcast-26-jan-2023/

JPL:https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-system-predicts-small-asteroid-to-pass-close-by-earth-this-week

>Designated 2023 BU, the asteroid will zoom over the southern tip of South America at about 4:27 p.m. PST (7:27 p.m. EST) only 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) above the planet’s surface

edit: ~13,000 miles, not ~22,000. Newsweek is correct, confirmed from first link above

What did you use to capture this. I only saw a small dod just like the northstar

NASA committed to working with Von Braun because he was a rocket expert. They just took care to not ask too many questions about Von Braun’s resume

I watched a YouTube video on these recently and they are something else for sure! Interesting and exciting stuff.

The thermal nuclear engine has propellant, technically not fuel. It's not combusted, just ejected backwards at high speed. It's gets used up, but it's not a source of energy.

The bigger they are, the easier it is to see them at greater distances, which makes it easier to do something to alter their trajectory because the farther away we intercept them, the less energy is needed to move them off course.

Got my info about why NASA doesn't use pencils from here. Not sure when/if it actually changed. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/space-pens

Thankyou for that. Idk if it's me or if google has gotten substantially worse because the only way I could find anything about it was with the "blanket" being included. The rest was just ads and articles.

How do we know you’re not Joshua Hawkins?

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It was a made up story, the photos you have seen have been taken by the astronauts and are actually documentation for space debris tracking when they accidentaly let a thermal blanket drift too far from the space shuttle and couldn't recover it

Thank you. This helps make real plans, everything sounds fun until you have to pay for it. We’ll be saving up for sure.

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I’ve just learned that, we’re planning to drive to the next one!

https://www.space.com/what-is-the-black-knight.html

Ok, that's also not true. Pencils will work just fine in space. Pencil graphite is mixed with clay and a bunch of other shit. Doesn't burn until like 1,000°c. And they aren't just making mass amounts of graphite dust by taking notes on shit.

And fine, nasa didn't spend the money, but millions were spent. And pencils do work just fine. They've literally been used by nasa and soyuz since the beginning of man's time in space.