[Carry_Okie]

So then you’d have double or triple the amount of junk falling?

In pieces so tiny they would not survive reentry intact. They would disperse so widely as to be inconsequential.

Yeah good plan. :)

I thought so. It beats letting big chunks fall where they will.

[NormsRevenge]

Falling satellite slows down, Earth strike delayed

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(AP) — A 6-ton NASA satellite on a collision course with Earth clung to space Friday, apparently flipping position in its ever-lower orbit and stalling its death plunge.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/09/20/national/a105333D87.DTL

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I agree , we need to develop and use technology to avert a larger catastrophe