Astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper 'liberated' a tool bag after a grease gun inside it exploded outside the international space station. The briefcase-size bag, containing two grease guns, a putty knife and cloth mitts, was one of the largest items ever to be lost by a spacewalker.
This is just one of the thousands of items floating in space tonight.
We refer to these floaters as 'Space Junk' and can be anything from nuts and bolts to a lost spacewalkers glove to satellites gone bad.
They may orbit Earth for weeks or centuries but someday they will fall.
Because the Earth is three quarters covered by water, the chances the junk will fall on your head are minimal...kind of like the chances that a black guy can become President. I think it would only be fitting if a piece of junk fell on one if not all three of the corporate jets that landed in D.C. carrying the Big 3 auto company CEOs (with the CEOs on them) to the congressional bailout hearings. That's a whole other story....
Anyway, secure your hardhat cause this is a picture of all the junk floating around in space:
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