Ronbo,
Last that I heard they are afraid it is going to interfere with some of the European satellites. I agree that it sounds as if they weren't paying much attention to what was going on with it.
We need to invent a space junk cleaner that would clean up all of the old junk floating around, especially in low orbit and either send it off into the sun or bring it down. They were showing pictures of the space shuttles windshield the other day and every launch they said they had picks all over them from hitting the small pieces. Heck I would even split the money with you if we could invent such a thing.
Ron
