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Seismometer networks could track space junk as it falls to Earth
- January 22, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University scientist has helped to devise a way to track falling debris using existing networks of earthquake-detecting seismometers.
Originally published at Phys.org