Originally Posted By: mlord
Because this one is already on its way down, and so the debris is unlikely to remain in orbit.


I'm not sure I'm convinced the debris is all gonna drop. Sure, the thing is in a slowly decaying orbit right now, so the idea is that the debris will decay too. But think about it. You blow it to smithereens, each smithereen is going to go flying off in a random direction at a wildly unpredictable velocity. I say there's a good chance some of those individual smithereens will end up in stable orbits.
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