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Those things are tiny and easily travelling at a few km/s, not sure how you could detect that

• ISL 4y ago
  You can't detect them, but, like meteor showers, they may sometimes come from certain directions.
• DennisP 4y ago
  GP's entire second paragraph addresses that point.
  • 1123581321 4y ago
    It does not as the same detection problem precludes meaningful statistical modeling (we do not have enough objects that can detect and report hits, and we would create too much debris collecting that data.) If there were any dangers obvious enough to detect from here, that destructive, we already wouldn’t be using that point since the mission is expensive and long-lasting enough that a statistical approach to protection would fail too quickly. (The suggestion made me think of “gun kata” in Wimmer’s Equilibrium which had the same problem, given the performance ratios stated in the opening monologue.)