Unidentified lights spotted in California sky, mystery solved.
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Flaming "orbital debris" from a 683-pound communications device, discarded from the International Space Station in 2020, reentered the Earth's atmosphere above Northern California, creating a dazzling display of meteor-like blazes. Such "space junk" is hard to track, and the U.S. Space Force tracks thousands of such items. More than 200 pieces of space junk reenter the atmosphere every year, and as the prevalence of such space junk increases, the chances that such debris could fall in a dangerous manner also increases.
Topics:science#international-space-station#northern-california#orbital-debris#safety-precautions#science-and-technology#space-junk
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