But there are also other hazards from space.Thousands of nuts, and other debris from space mission form an orbiting garbage dump.Some of these bits and pieces fall back into earth's atmosphere and behave just like any other meteor, lighting up the sky like a "falling star".according to NASA, there must be over 100000 objects with a diameter of one to ten centimeters floating around space. The number of fragments less then one centimeters could in the million.the U.S.