{"id":1685,"date":"2009-12-19T09:37:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T08:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2009-12-19T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T08:37:56","slug":"how-many-satellites-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"How many satellites are there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment, I&#8217;m reading a fascinating book of cosmology called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/You-are-Here-Portable-Universe\/dp\/0091796881\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1261168622&#038;sr=1-1\">&#8220;You Are Here&#8221;<\/a> and written by Christopher Potter. It&#8217;s full of intriguing facts.<br \/>\nFor instance, how many satellites do you think there are orbiting the Earth? According to Potter, there are 417 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites (160-2,000 kilometres above the earth), 47 Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites (2,000-35,800 kms) and 351 High Earth Orbit (HEO) satellites (at or above 35,786). That makes in 815 all.<br \/>\nIn addition, there&#8217;s loads of junk out there. It&#8217;s estimated that there are around 600,000 pieces of man made debris larger than a centimetre orbiting the Earth below 1,000 km.<br \/>\nWhere are the Boy Scouts when you need them to do a cleaning up job?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment, I&#8217;m reading a fascinating book of cosmology called &#8220;You Are Here&#8221; and written by Christopher Potter. It&#8217;s full of intriguing facts. For instance, how many satellites do you think there are orbiting the Earth? According to Potter, there are 417 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites (160-2,000 kilometres above the earth), 47 Medium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}