Explain why space junk is a hazard to an astronats or spacecraft

Chemistry

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Pie3 years ago

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Answer:

Space junk is travelling so fast that a collision with an astronaut or a spacecraft could be disastrous.

Explanation:

Space junk orbits the Earth at speeds of about 28 000 km/h.

That's so fast that even an orbiting fleck of paint has enough kinetic energy to cause impact craters on the surface of a spacecraft. They are even more dangerous to an astronaut on a space walk.

Much of the space debris is larger and more dangerous than a fleck of paint.

One rough estimate of the amount of space debris is

<em> </em><u>Size</u><em> </em> <u>Number of objects</u>

< 1 cm 200 000 000

1 cm to 10 cm 700 000

> 10 cm 30 000

Satellites, etc. 18 000

The chances of collision are small, but any collision can be disastrous.

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