To: McGruff
If it was you, you’re in a rare club. Hardly anyone showed concern when I first started doing it over twenty years ago.
That and illegal immigration were yawn moments back them.
Not for me...
You start tossing out debris like China is doing with these tests, and pretty soon you’ll have a zone so full of killer junk that we won’t be able to go into space.
I’m sure it dissipates over time, but that could take years.
4 posted on
11/09/2015 12:04:03 PM PST by
DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
I'm sure it dissipates over time, but that could take years. Centuries to millennia.
Not much in the way of atmospheric drag in space...
6 posted on
11/09/2015 12:07:27 PM PST by
null and void
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To: DoughtyOne
I was hinting for the article's author
circa 2000. It did stick with me though.
21 posted on
11/09/2015 12:35:44 PM PST by
McGruff
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To: DoughtyOne
Here's a chart for orbital altitudes up to about 400 miles (I suspect it assumes a circular orbit):
28 posted on
11/09/2015 1:52:25 PM PST by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DoughtyOne
30 posted on
11/09/2015 1:54:47 PM PST by
DuncanWaring
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