• lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    When other debris hits them or parts of them break off, some fragments will have lower mass and slightly different trajectory and therefore may change into higher orbit.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      therefore may change into higher orbit.

      Not really. They may go into a higher orbit temporarily, but they would be highly elliptical, repeatedly dipping into the atmosphere and bleeding speed

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      7 hours ago

      Those pieces would still have their original low periapsis and deorbit pretty quick. Kessler syndrome isn’t about very low orbits where drag is significant

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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      9 hours ago

      And simply due to physics, those will be the exception and not the rule, and so not enough to cause Kessler Syndrome.