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Comment by pwndByDeath

1 day ago

Meh, orbits and nuclei are vastly different scales, I've tried to simulate this by making everything in space-track a 10km radius sphere and it was just a few starlink nudging each other a couple times a week.

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fifilura  9 hours ago

Isn't the theory that each nudge results in 100 new objects?

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