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COMMENTS: Animated Space Junk
Analytical Graphics at agi.com got all the credit for Dan Harris' report on ABC about the collision of a pair of orbiting communications satellites 500 miles above Siberia. Cosmos 2251, a one-ton decommissioned Russian military satellite, crossed paths with Iridium 33, which has commercial customers and is used by the Pentagon. The upshot of the impact is a cloud of space junk that is hurtling round Earth at 17,000 mph. Other satellites "will now have to play dodgeball for decades to come," Harris warned. Analytical Graphics supplied the not-to-scale animation to illustrate the risk from debris.
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