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Re:Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of or... by rich_sasha on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:42AM (#32862871)
What's the minimum size at which debris is dangerous?

Since everything is moving at orbital speeds, and generally at an angle to each other, i understood even small fragments move at a few km/sec relative to what they hit, so don't need to be particularly large.

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Re:Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of or... by gattilorenz on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:17AM (#32864614)
True, but I imagine that, the smaller the object, the smaller the chance that it will be hit/it will hit something, and a smaller amount of fragments that the hit can generate.
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