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Originally Posted by Zorgman
The schoolboy took into consideration the risk of Apophis running into one or more of the 40,000 satellites orbiting Earth during its path close to the planet on April 13 2029.
40,000 satellites? How many do we have now?
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Somebody correct me if I'm wrong... but a satellite is pretty much any debris that is orbiting a mass. So say for example there is a soccer ball floating around orbiting Earth... that would be a satellite.
Although in this case maybe they are talking about man-made satellites, I have no idea, that just seems like an awful lot.
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