• LanternEverywhere@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    I’d guess that even in the higher orbits the manmade materials will eventually fall down or spin away over the span of a few hundred thousand years. Even if it is currently in a perfect locked orbit, there will be some amount of mass loss over time that will alter the orbit. But I’m no physicist, so i easily could be wrong

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      Idk about mass loss, but space is full of small rocks and dust moving at high speeds. Impacts from those might not make a big difference on the human timescale, but a longer one, it would absolutely cause a shift in orbital momentum.