We may need to start taking this possibility more seriously.
, and maybe once every 100 years or so, a body tens of metres across manages to drive through the atmosphere to excavate a crater.can make it to the surface, causing death and destruction – as shown by the lack of dinosaurs roaming the Earth today. These are examples of natural space debris, the uncontrolled arrival of which is unpredictable and spread more or less evenly across the globe.
They found that there is a small, but significant, risk of parts re-entering in the coming decade. But this is more likely to happen over southern latitudes than northern ones. In fact, the study estimated that rocket bodies are approximately three times more likely to land at the latitudes of Jakarta in Indonesia, Dhaka in Bangladesh or Lagos in Nigeria than those of New York in the US, Beijing in China or Moscow in Russia.
But as the number of entries into the rocket launch business increases - and moves from government to private enterprise - it is highly likely that the number of accidents, both in space and on Earth, such as that which followed the launch of theWhat can be done
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