[Yo-Yo]

“With the debris field so low, it will decay shortly and more completely” if you go to the link in post 17, china’s debris was still in space 11 months later. How short is shortly?

If you read the link in post 17, you will have seen this:

"Updating the initial analysis by CSSI just after this event was first reported shows pieces in the debris cloud ranging from below 200 km in altitude up to almost 4,000 km"

4,000 km is just over 2,400 miles high. Stuff at that height will be around a long time. Nothing from this satellite, shot at from below 100 miles up, will make it anywhere near that height.

[supercat]

4,000 km is just over 2,400 miles high. Stuff at that height will be around a long time. Nothing from this satellite, shot at from below 100 miles up, will make it anywhere near that height.

The pieces that reach that height won't be in orbit very long, because their orbits will so be highly elliptical that the low point will come very close to the Earth (most likely hitting it outright).

[huldah1776]

Thanks! My ultimate favorite movie is “Armageddon”. :) So, that’s about all I know about this stuff and the “big ass sky”. I do love NASA’s photo of the day, too.
Matt 5:33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.’ 34 But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; 35 or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.” NIV