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why do we wait for meteor showers when we could make our own?

tenbyfifty

By tenbyfifty
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Well, yeah, but falling satellites, and the space shuttle, glow on reentry, so shurely we could just get our balls in orbit and then deorbit them, in a targeted fashion?

Material that burns up during reentry was moving at what? Anyone....anyone? Orbital velocity, 24,000+ mph, so yes, it heats up. Something towed up very, very high and dropped will only reach terminal velocity due to gravity and wind resistance, no more.

Getting my balls in space is a whole 'nother thread.

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