Fishing debris in space

[lstoskopf at cox.net]

I always thought a good plot for a science fiction story would to have some space Luddite launch a rocket filled with very small depleted uranium pellets around the moon and bring it back into earth orbit going the wrong direction.  Very quickly would make space useless and life as we know it much changed.  Lucky only a few have those resources and they are the ones with the most to lose!  N0UU  Or could a couple of rouge nations I can think of do that?

---- Philip Miller Tate <Philmt59 at aol.com> wrote: 
> 
> On 7 Feb 2011, at 04:01, Chip Fetrow wrote:
> 
> > The great news is, most of the space junk IS going in the same  
> > direction, in pretty much the same orbit.  If it is faster, it is  
> > higher, if it is slower, it is lower.  It is in pretty much the  
> > same direction because of the efficiencies of launching it into orbit.
> >
> 
> At least until it starts colliding with other space junk. Then  
> trajectories will be less predictable...
> 
> Phil M1GWZ
> 
> 
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