September 21, 2011 Space Junk

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

The good news is those dots are not to scale, and the bits of space junk are much smaller than they look there.

Yeah, on that scale, every one of them would have to be as big as Delaware. The hard equator line is interesting, not just that they would group around the middle, which makes sense, but that they seem to group at a certain distance as well. I guess maybe counterforces of the moon and sun make that a particularly good distance to get stuck in orbit.