modeltrains
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2011
- Messages
- 1,878
- Reaction score
- 760
Perhaps of interest?
Debris from burning satellites could be affecting Earth's magnetic field
News
By Tereza Pultarova
published 15 March 2024
https://www.space.com/satellites-re-entering-magnetosphere-effects-study
Debris from burning satellites could be affecting Earth's magnetic field
News
By Tereza Pultarova
published 15 March 2024
The growing number of satellites burning up in Earth's atmosphere has concerned scientists for years, and now a new paper explores how the emerging shell of "conductive dust" around the planet that results from satellite re-entries may affect Earth's protective magnetic field.
"We're surrounding the planet with trash," Sierra Solter-Hunt, an American physicist and PhD candidate at the University of Iceland, told Space.com. Solter-Hunt is the sole author of the new paper, which has been published in December 2023 as pre-print on the online repository Arxiv and is still awaiting peer-review. Since then, the paper has stirred discussions online. Solter-Hunt is happy about that, even though some consider her conclusions exaggerated.
"I wanted to get the conversation started," she said.
https://www.space.com/satellites-re-entering-magnetosphere-effects-study