• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Astronomers track centimeter-sized objects up in space. Tracking a mosquito in the same room is not an issue. The rest of the “invention” is the problem.

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      10 hours ago

      No they don’t. Our greatest success to date was predicting a 1m wide asteroid a whole 3 hours before it hit.

      That’s actually impressive given the challenge at hand. But nobody is tracking centimeter sized objects outside Earths orbit. And the ones they are tracking in orbit are man made trash and not rocks.

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        Yeah, they do. 8700 objects tracked that are 10cm or larger at the time of writing the paper. Shitloads of other debris that wasn’t regularly tracked, but could be, at 1cm or similar sizes. Source

        Edit: I also never said “outside Earths orbit”, I said “in space”