What's up there? Find out online

Not much to do with electronics, but an interesting topic nonetheless. An 18year old programmer called James Yoder has created a 3D interactive map of all the 'stuff' in orbit around the Earth.

Just in case you were wondering, there are more than 150,000 objects larger than a cricket ball 'up there'. And it is suspected there are many more smaller objects that are the result of collisions, explosions and the like.

According to Yoder, his map – called stuffin.space – predicts the location of a satellite to within a few kilometres, as well as providing information such as altitude and velocity.