I'm not the first one to think this wasn't space debris. I've come to the conclusion that this was a controlled long range rocket in the testing phase.
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Surprisingly, no collisions with anything else while orbiting.
I'd be very surprised if it hit anything that isn't sea or empty land, since that's most of what planet Earth is... specially sea (around 70% of the surface).
As for space, it's nigh impossible for it to hit anything while orbiting. Low orbit isn't like on that movie "Gravity" where there's a chance for stuff to collide. Despite all of the stuff in there it's still a whole lot of empty space even on low orbit.
No surprise at all. There is a lot of space in OUTER SPACE.
Outer Space is space beyond the boundaries of our solar system. Things don’t orbit in outer space. And you would be surprised at how much junk orbits our planet at any given time
You are being absurdly picky. Anything above the von Karman Line (~100 km) is free to be called "outer space." Plenty of things orbit at nearly any distance you care to measure, from Earth satellites, to satellites in orbit around the Sun, to space probes in far-flung orbits around distant planets. I would NOT be surprised at how much junk orbits our planet at any given time, having invented a method for dealing with that junk (patent no. 8,800,933 B2).
Yep. There are a lot of things in orbit as well. http://www.stuffin.space/