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COMMENTS: Emergency! Incoming Junk
Space junk found itself in the news last month when ABC's Dan Harris told us about the couple of satellites that collided in orbit above Siberia, scattering debris. It was something much smaller than a satellite--an object "about the size of my fist, part of an old United States rocket," ABC's Ned Potter told us--that now makes news. It forced crew members Michael Fincke, Sandra Magnus and Yuri Lonchakov to take refuge in the Soyuz spacecraft as it zoomed towards the International Space Station. It may not have been big, Potter conceded "but even small things traveling at 17K mph can pulverize." The junk missed the station by less than three miles.
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