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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s 10 times bigger than what you said originally.

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      • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I mean we track the moon, and it can be measured in cm, right? /s

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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I said “centimeter sized”, mr Pedant, which is 1cm. Which is possible to track, just not done. The point is if they can track that, they can track a mosquito in the same room. But by all means, keep arguing semantics.

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