The debris survey team also deployed 400 numbered wooden blocks along the route, often near floating debris.
Private companies would be paid bounties out of the fund for successfully removing debris according to the debris-creation-avoidance value assigned to each object.
Pleus said most debris out in the ocean attracts fish, so it's not surprising these fish found a home in the debris.
The highest proportion of litter on beaches had been left behind by visitors, followed by fishing debris, shipping litter and sewage-related debris.
The asteroid trails debris behind it as it travels across the sky, and in January of each year, the Earth passes through that debris trail.
The nonprofit Hawaii Wildlife Fund said marine debris has been a problem for years for the island state and tsunami debris has made things worse.
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We had all those debris collectors who marched shoulder to shoulder through the state of Texas, picking up that debris, which turned out to be so significant.
"It's difficult to say exactly how much debris is expected to show up, and when and where, " said Dianna Parker, a spokeswoman with the NOAA Marine Debris Program.
Hoarding can become dangerous when debris gets piled so high that it falls and injures someone, or when the debris serves as a breeding ground for disease-causing toxic mold or vermin.
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Esa is a member of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), a forum for the worldwide coordination of activities related to the issues of man-made and natural debris in space.
If boaters, fishermen and beachgoers find these blocks and contact the scientists by the information on the blocks, they will help the debris trackers' understanding of the motion of debris and currents in this remote region.
"I've got no reports that I've seen that talk about people who think they might have recovered debris, " Nick Johnson, Nasa's chief scientist for orbital debris at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, told reporters during a media teleconference.
Coming up on February 10, the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute will show us what it looks like when a supernova that has spewed tons of debris into space sees that debris begin to hit the rings around the dying star.
The NASA scientist said the odds of an operational satellite being disabled by space debris remain quite small, though he points out that two have been lost after being hit by man-made debris -- a French satellite in 1996 and an American craft in 2009.
Although the predicted distance between the debris and the satellite seemed to preclude a collision, the fact that the close approach happened within 10 seconds of the change in orbit made the Feng Yun 1C debris the likely culprit, Kelso wrote in a blog post.
"We do not currently have the capability to track debris smaller than 10 centimeters, but our estimate is that there are hundreds of thousands of pieces of debris that size and smaller that have the potential to do damage, " said Frank Rose, deputy assistant secretary of state for space and defense policy.
Better tracking data would be required to maximize the effectiveness of debris removal prizes.
Brink, like other recovery workers, used his hands to scour through a wasteland of debris.
After an avalanche hit, the big trees stayed on top of debris, while little trees were buried.
Will Rogers World Airport said flights wouldn't resume until morning, after debris was cleared from runways.
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Like many of the 12, 000 pieces of recovered shuttle debris, it was charred and mangled.
The depot was hit by a massive explosion, which sent fireworks and debris flying across site.
The work will initially involve clearing huge blockages of twigs and other debris from the flues.
Waves of debris flowed like lava across farmland, pushing boats, houses and trailers in their paths.
But rescuers were unable to move the heavy debris under which they were trapped.
Officials described a dangerous scene for emergency responders, with downed power lines and debris everywhere.
It's part of a program to find new fields of space debris that could hit Earth.
Roofs were ripped from homes, branches stripped from trees and roads were filled with debris.
Rescue workers were trying to retrieve the dead and wounded from the debris, mr.
Much of the money is targeted for emergency services and the removal of debris.
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