> The speed of space junk is much lower than that of meteoroids For a decaying satellite it will take a few minutes less than 1.5 hours to once circle the earth in a very low orbit of just a bit more than 100 km (approximately 65 mi) height above sea level, hence a speed of something around or little more than 7.5 km/sec (less than 5 mi/sec), which, as Marco has pointed out, is MUCH LOWER than that of meteoroids. Decaying satellites will cover only but a few degrees of arc per second on the observable sky, even if going overhead, and usually be much slower in relative speed than meteoroids coming in, well, if these don´t happen to be head-on, of course... :-)
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