SPACE JUNK
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1. Should we be worried _______________ being
hit on the ___________ by a bit of old junk from a long-forgotten space mission?
2. There are about _______________ kilos of junk up in
space.
3. All of this _________________ is orbiting
planet Earth, sometimes as fast as ______________ kilometres per hour.
4. Most experts estimate that there are about
_________________ man-made
objects ________________
5. Some of that junk is _________ enough to do
______________ damage to a space station.
6. We won’t know which junk is
_____________________ until it comes ________________ our atmosphere and
crashes _______________ Earth
7. Every year between ___________________ and
_____________
objects
re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere
8. In _____________ an American space station
______________
out of the sky ________________ the Indian Ocean.
9. One of its ________________ parts
__________________ in the Indian Ocean and another in Australia.
10. In ________________ an astronaut lost his
_____________ ,
which reached speeds over ______________
kilometres per hour.
Check key at the bottom.
KEY
1. ABOUT - HEAD
2. TWO
MILLION
3. RUBBISH -
THIRTY THOUSAND
4. NINE
THOUSAND - UP THERE
5. BIG -
SERIOUS
6. DANGEROUS -
THROUGH - INTO
7. FIFTY - A
HUNDRED
8. 1979 -
FELL - INTO
9. LARGEST -
LANDED
10. 1965
- GLOVE - 28
THOUSAND
