How much space junk is orbiting Earth?
13,000 tAbout 14,300 US tons · Colossal
More than 13,000 tonnes of human-made objects are in orbit, according to ESA.
That's about 150,000 big red kangaroos (85 kg each).
🛰️13,000 t
🌲General Sherman
By weight: all space junk is about 6.5× heavier than General Sherman.
Things about the same weight
- How much does the ATLAS detector at CERN weigh?7,000 t
- How much does the Eiffel Tower weigh?10,100 t
- How much did the Chelyabinsk meteor weigh?12,000 t
- How much does Bagger 288 weigh?13,500 t
- How much does the CMS detector at CERN weigh?14,000 t
- How much does the Leaning Tower of Pisa weigh?14,500 t
- How much does an Ohio-class submarine weigh?18,750 t
- How much silver is mined in a year?26,000 t
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