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Space debris could weaken Earth's magnetic field

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09329

by Jeff_Brown • 2 years ago

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h2odragon• 2 years ago

actual title: "Potential Perturbation of the Ionosphere by Megaconstellations and Corresponding Artificial Re-entry Plasma Dust"

Here it will be shown that the mass of the conductive particles left behind from worldwide distribution of re-entry satellites is already billions of times greater than the mass of the Van Allen Belts.

made me say "really?" so i went and found this: https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/RBSP7.pdf

That estimates the mass of the Van Allen belts at 11 grams

Which makes me wonder about the disparity in energy levels between the classes of particles and if its a case of talking about icebergs vs superheated steam.

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