Space debris from antisatellite weapons http://www.thebulletin.org/columns/david-wright/20071002.html
By David Wright | 2 October 2007
The term "outer space" has always inspired visions of vast regions of nothingness. So even 50 years into the space age, people still tend to view space like the early pioneers viewed the Wild West--sparsely populated, and therefore in little need of laws or regulations, and so boundless that no one worried about ruining the environment. http://www.thebulletin.org/columns/david-wright/20071002.html