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If it crashes to earth, wont it release large amount of debris in the atmosphere?
by bjourne 9y ago
If it crashes to earth, wont it release large amount of debris in the atmosphere?
- FooBarWidget 9y ago90% of the debris burns up in the atmosphere. The remaining 10% -- who knows where they end up, but it is said that it's unlikely that the debris hit anything important. This isn't the first time something like this happened. When NASA's SkyLab fell to earth in 1979, an Australian town fined them $400 -- for littering. https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/14/1556228/nasas-skylab-400-littering-fine-paid-by-dj https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/14/1556228/nasas-sk...
- bjourne 9y agoI was thinking about space debris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris
- FussyZeus 9y agoWe crash satellites and spacecraft all the time. Most burns up during re-entry, the rest...well that's why they aim for oceans usually.
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- kabdib 9y agoEvery day, an estimated hundred tons of debris (mostly meteoric dust) hits the earth's atmosphere. A satellite is not a big deal; it burns up, possibly with small chunks hitting the surface. Even if you were directly on the ground track for this thing, you wouldn't notice anything aside from the reentry fireball.