Turns out that the big piece of space debris from the Russian rocket launch that burned up over the East Coast -- wasn't a big piece of space debris from a Russian rocket launch. Now, here I was getting all worried about the space debris problem -- when this turns out rather to be another hit by a bus-sized asteroid. Apparently we've been having a spate of those lately. There was the one that was spied a day or so out, and which impacted in the northern Sudan, and which they just recently found pieces of via a painstaking search; there was that fireball over Texas and that fireball over Canada and that Tunguska-class NEO that just missed us and that other Tunguska-class asteroid that just missed us --- starting to get the theme here?
And that's apparently just natural stuff. As for the unnatural junk, the European Space Agency is having a conference about that problem right now.
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