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Robin Leadbeater
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Interesting. I don’t think the comparison between the mass deorbited and the amount of material in the Van Allen belt is particularly helpful as the two are not comparable (We already receive ~ 40T/day of metals from meteorites) but at the future projected rate of 23 satellite deorbits a day (in the paper) the amount of additional material would appear to be comparable.