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Space Junk: Orbiting Debris, Once a Nuisance, Is Now a Threat - New York Times

Citation added: February 6th, 2007, 10:36 am
Now, experts say, China’s test on Jan. 11 of an antisatellite rocket that shattered an old satellite into hundreds of large fragments means the chain reaction will most likely start sooner. If their predictions are right, the cascade could put billions
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YouTube - Rocket Blows Up

Citation added: February 1st, 2007, 8:16 am
Sea Launch has a bad day.
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Atmospheric reentry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Citation added: January 25th, 2007, 9:00 pm
Atmospheric reentry is the process by which vehicles that are outside the atmosphere of a planet can enter that atmosphere and reach the planetary surface intact. Vehicles that undergo this process include spacecraft from orbit, as well as suborbital ICBM
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How to destroy the Earth @ Things Of Interest

Citation added: January 3rd, 2007, 11:42 pm
The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of ad
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Cassini-Huygens: Multimedia-Images

Citation added: January 3rd, 2007, 10:49 pm
The existence of oceans or lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan was predicted more than 20 years ago. But with a dense haze preventing a closer look it has not been possible to confirm their presence. Until the Cassini flyby of July 22, 2006, th
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