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Russian cosmonauts toss empty container into space after connecting cables
- kbelder 5y agoIt's at a low attitude, it's a light object with lots of surface area, it'll be dragged into the atmosphere pretty quickly... probably in months. It may be a bad habit to toss trash this way, but not worth a freakout. I do wonder to what extent the force and direction of the toss would matter. Five meters/second works out to a displacement of 43km per day, the space station is around 400 km up. I know orbital dynamics make the math harder...