The problem with your intuition is that you have to consider those objects travelling about the USA at 10km/s - ie, they can cross the entire country in 7 minut

The problem with your intuition is that you have to consider those objects travelling about the USA at 10km/s - ie, they can cross the entire country in 7 minutes. At the time of writing, SOCRATES shows seven approaches closer than 100 metres in the next few days: https://www.celestrak.com/cgi-bin/searchSOCRATES.pl?IDENT=NAME&NAME_TEXT1=&NAME_TEXT2=&ORDER=MINRANGE&MAX=10 https://www.celestrak.com/cgi-bin/searchSOCRATES.pl?IDENT=NA...