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Is it though? To try and quantify risk I looked up how many metoeites hit the earth each day and its 18,000 to 84,000 that are over 10 grams. Whiile the earth
by Gustomaximus 7y ago
Is it though? To try and quantify risk I looked up how many metoeites hit the earth each day and its 18,000 to 84,000 that are over 10 grams.
Whiile the earth is obviously much bigger than a space craft, you would think should there be a bunch of craft flying around in the future, theres a fair odds of it happening every few years.
Also for example, the ISS has already been hit a couple of times: https://www.iflscience.com/space/an-astronaut-used-his-finger-to-plug-that-leak-on-the-international-space-station/ https://www.iflscience.com/space/an-astronaut-used-his-finge...
If we have thousands or 10's of thousands of craft in space in the future I would suspect this will be a very real issue on a semi regular basis.
Take what I say with a healthy dose of skeptism as not an expert or even well researched, but logically on above seems quite a reasonable risk.
- ben-schaaf 7y agoThings tend to collect around large gravity wells, that's just kinda how that works. I don't think you can compare the ISS in LEO to something traveling within or without the solar system.