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gofortli
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Hi Folks,<br /><br />I had a question about the hazard of an orbiting spacecraft striking or being struck by space debris. For instance, I know that various junk and objects are monitored and tracked so that collisions don't occur. But I think that monitoring only can be done down to a certain size object.<br /><br />There must be thousands of small objects like bolts, nuts, sheared metal pieces, etc. that are floating around. I would think that an orbiting craft striking or being sruck by a (let's say) metal bolt would pierce the thin skin of a spacecraft and possibly do substantial damage.<br /><br />Have we just been lucky, or does this occur much more than the public is informed of?