Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous objects in near real time.

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Circling the Earth are millions of pieces of debris about one-ninth of an inch and larger.

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More than 120 seismometers detected sonic booms from space debris and enabled its fall to be tracked with unprecedented ...

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Scientists tracked lithium pollution from a SpaceX Falcon 9 reentry in real time, linking rocket debris to atmospheric changes using LIDAR measurements over Europe.

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It’s one extraordinary thing to launch the product of mankind’s brilliant minds into the cosmos, but it’s another to keep track of it long after the mission ends. We’ve explored before how important ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects by tuning into their sonic booms. Scientists ...

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