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Unfortunately, to show the Earth and the orbital positions to scale, it was not possible to show the pieces of debris to scale.
Yes, sorry. The not-to-scale aspect meant it jumped the shark almost immediately for me as well. As small as possible, following the initial display of the object, might have conveyed the idea better - and that would have made the Chinese explosion a little more fun.
But see also the NASA visualisation on the NASA orbital debris site: http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/