spaceflight, 13 days ago

Soon we will be putting at least an Eiffel Tower’s worth of metallic ash a year directly into the #ionosphere. Highly conductive materials can create charging effects and act as a magnetic 🧲 shield https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/16/dead-satellite-space-earth-magnetic-field

Eka_FOOF_A, 13 days ago

@spaceflight
Slight problem. At the minimum 15,000 tons of space dust tries to get down to earth every year, but only a third makes it. The rest burns up/vaporizes in the atmosphere. Now that number is based on a study that only counted clearly identifiable space dust particles. It missed all the space dust that is very similar to plain earth dust which we know exists from collection traps done in space.

spaceflight, 13 days ago

@Eka_FOOF_A her rpoint is "Unlike meteorites ☄️, which are small and only contain trace amounts of aluminum, these wrecked spacecraft are huge and consist entirely of aluminum and other exotic, highly conductive materials. And highly conductive materials can create charging effects and act as a magnetic 🧲 shield" (NOT the "space dust that is very similar to plain earth dust")