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[–] pyres 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Good news:

90% of 1000 meter objects in NEO found. Yeah, that's more than 1/2 mile sized objects.

Bad News:

They've found just 10% of the 100 m NEOs and less than 1% of the 40 m ones."

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[–] Owlchemy [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

And no matter what, there's very little we can do about them ... or even our own orbiting space junkyard above.

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[–] pyres 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

There are a bunch of plans to clean up the space junk. Lasers, grabber satellites. Hopefully it's just a matter of time.

Here's a link to the Orbital Debris Newsletter