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Originally Posted by unagi1
Neuro, last year China shot down one of their satellites in a show of force. They did a great job of littering the atmosphere with over 40,000 pieces of debris, which will pose a danger to commercial and military satellites for the next 30 years.
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Not in the atmosphere, otherwise it falls to Earth (and hopefully burns up). These are a bit of a poblem, but since they aren't moving very fast (relatively) they don't pose anywhere near the danger of micro-meteorites.