[BobbyJo]

> This still doesn't indicate anything.

It does indicate something. It indicates that

> they weren't expecting this to happen so soon after the launch

The delta matters, but no matter the delta, the fact that it defied expectation stands.

[wiz21c]

How does one even collect information about the probability of being hit by something that big in space ? They counted hits on things (ships) that came back from space ?

[Termitiono]

The lagrange point itself has a probability how realistic it is that something can be cought in it / if it stays there.

There are other points were stones collect like l4 and l5.

Then we have Hubble (and over 100 others as a benchmark, a few ships/missions like to the moon and Mars.

Herschel space observatory was also on l2. There is a wiki Artikel called 'list of objects at langrange points'

[jaggederest]

They've launched flat plates made of aerogel to capture orbital debris.

For example: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/stardust/home/index.html