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If we blow ourselves up, will all of the junk we left in orbit around the earth eventually form rings of garbage?
by excalibur 3y ago
If we blow ourselves up, will all of the junk we left in orbit around the earth eventually form rings of garbage?
- rglover 3y agoThe Wall-E Hypothesis
- justrealist 3y agoNo, the vast majority is in LEO and will drop in a few decades.
- dotancohen 3y agoThe Geo sats will stay up for millions of years though. The graveyard orbits, just a few hundreds of km above Geo, brushes up on ten million years from what I've been told. I can not actually find a reliable source online that gives any number.