September 21, 2011 Space Junk

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09-22-2011, 08:07 AM

ZenGum

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I suspect that is the altitude of geostationary orbit. IIRC it is about 42,000 kms.

ETA: 32,786.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit has cool gifs to show this.

Probably a lot of the dots there are satellites, not debris.

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I guess maybe counterforces of the moon and sun make that a particularly good distance to get stuck in orbit.

You might be thinking of Lagrange points.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_points

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