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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by gipp on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:10PM (#28527713)
I'm probably under thinking this, but wouldn't the overall momentum of the debris be conserved so you'd have a bias in debris velocity in whatever direction the original objects were orbiting (presumably not random)?
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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by SuoDuanDao on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:26PM (#28527920)
I would assume that as the debris cloud became more biased in one direction, it would be more and more likely to encounter new debris coming in a different direction.
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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by tornato7 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @11:24PM (#28547601)
This would be a really fun simulation to run
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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by Antipode on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:20PM (#28530519)
At least at geosynchronous altitude it seems like it would be significantly biased in the direction of Earth's rotation, especially along geostationary orbit.
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