Space Junk Keeps Falling on my Head, California Home Insurance

In this day and age of technology, it is more and more important to get California home insurance to protect your possessions.  You need this not because of the valuables you have in your home, HDTVs, Blu-Ray players, PlayStations, Xboxes, kitchen appliances, etc.  You need this because of the amount of space junk that falls back to earth.  Technology has advanced so much in the last 50 years since the first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

According to tallies from NASA, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command), the Federal Communications Commission and other domestic and international agencies, there are currently 17,000 objects measuring 4 in. (10 cm) or greater circling the earth. There are a whopping 200,000 in the 1-in. to 3-in. (2.5 cm to 7.5 cm) range, and millions smaller than an inch.  While most of the smaller objects will burn up in the atmosphere, most of the objects in the category of 4+ inches will not.  That’s because most of those objects are comparable to the 6-ton NASA research satellite that plummeted back to the earth late September after a 20-year run in our planet’s orbit.

With that said, we don’t want to start a mass panic and have everybody paranoid about falling space junk.  We do, however, want to caution you that it does happen and hope that you all have the right coverage to protect yourselves against any damages.

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