To this layman who knows very little about orbits and impact craters, that explanation makes a lot of sense. But the professional software engineer in me knows

To this layman who knows very little about orbits and impact craters, that explanation makes a lot of sense. But the professional software engineer in me knows that even people well skilled in adjacent fields dont understand the issues that makes things “obvious” in my own field. I therefore don’t doubt that the experts who study space debris considered the obvious explanation and rejected it. Or concluded that it wasn’t as obvious as it may seem. That they are willing to defer to the crater-formation expert shows an admirable humility and deference to someone who is far more likely to know.