Two large pieces of space junk barely avoid collision – The Tribune

New York, October 17
In a big relief, two large pieces of orbital debris barely avoided colliding with each other this week although the chances of a smash-up were calculated to be over 10 per cent by California-based space tracking company LeoLabs.
The two bodies, a dead Russian satellite and a spent Chinese rocket body, have a combined mass of about 2,800 kgs, LeoLabs said.
A collision of the two objects would have created a huge cloud of debris as they were hurtling toward each other with …

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