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Does the debris have a degrading orbit and eventually get pulled earthward and burn up on entry? Or is that chaff out there floating around forever just outside
by stonesweep 5y ago
Does the debris have a degrading orbit and eventually get pulled earthward and burn up on entry? Or is that chaff out there floating around forever just outside the gravitational pull?
- toomuchtodo 5y agoIn the case of these objects, at ~800km, the time for orbital decay is often measured in decades.
- londons_explore 5y agoTry millennia...
- mnw21cam 5y agoSome of the pieces will have a lower orbit, which might be low enough for them to scrape the atmosphere and bring them down. Some of the pieces will be placed into a higher orbit (although the lowest point won't be raised).