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I skipped the article and found the Wikipedia page, which satisfied my curiosity from the headline: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford https://en
by benatkin 4y ago
I skipped the article and found the Wikipedia page, which satisfied my curiosity from the headline: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
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- wumpus 4y agoYep, that's a very interesting Wikipedia article. One thing that surprised me is that most of the needles reentered within 3 years. They have a pretty large surface area per unit mass, so the effects of the very thin atmosphere up there is maximized. Normally a satellite at 3,500 km would take centuries to decay. There are some clumps of needles still up there. One not-well-understood thing is how many small clumps remain -- the clumps which are too small to be seen on radar.