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You would not be attracting stationary objects, you would be attracting things flying past at tens of thousands of whatever unit per hour you like best. Gravity
by dotancohen 2y ago
You would not be attracting stationary objects, you would be attracting things flying past at tens of thousands of whatever unit per hour you like best. Gravity is nowhere near strong enough to affect these objects for purposes of collecting them.
- magicalhippo 2y agoYou don't need to collect them, just perturb their orbit enough that they burn up in a reasonably short time. Still not viable I assume, but...
- Aeolun 2y agoI doubt you can put an extra small moon into space, but maybe you could bring in a massive asteroid? I guess the big problem is that it’d affect the intact satallites a lot more than the debris.