If you needed any reminder of the vast amount of stuff orbiting the third rock from the sun, consider the one-ton European science satellite that just ran out of fuel, plunged back into earth's atmosphere, burned up into a fiery mess, and dumped debris across the southern Atlantic.
Luckily, the scorched remnants of the European satellite fell harmlessly from the sky. Even so, there are millions of pieces of space junk that swarm around in earth's orbit at blistering speeds, according to NASA, and some of it reenters the planet's atmosphere every day.
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