How do tiny pieces of space junk cause incredible damage?

[Admin]

Space junk moves at 10 times the speed of a bullet from an average gun.

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[rod]

"It all comes down to velocity." I did some Newtonian physics here. 1 gram object traveling at 5 x 10^5 cm/s = 1.25 x 10^11 erg/s in CGS units. That is 1.25 x 10^4 joule/s using SI. This 1 gram object is moving along at 5 km/s. It would pack quite a punch