Memoir, autobiography, biography. A memoir is a special kind of autobiography, usually involving a public portion of the authorâs life as it relates to a person, historic event, or thing. The text is about the personal knowledge and/or experiences of the author. literary agent discusses the contents of a quality memoir and how it differs from an autobiography or biography. Memoirs are perennially popular with many new books coming out each year. The bestseller, Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a memoir, not an autobiography or biography.
According to CelesTrak there are 2,691 inactive satellites in orbit. 1,490 satellites are active for a total of 4,181. [1] The UCS Satellite Database has an equivalent number. [2]
There have been about 8000 man made objects launched into space - only a handful left Earth orbit. Some have decayed and reentered. There are about 3000 satellites currently in orbit. Only about 1000 of those are active. But there are other objects, too, such as spent rockets. Some objects have broken apart because of collisions. There are about 20,000 objects in orbit that are 10 cm in diameter, or larger.