Well, replace on a orbit with on any orbit on my comment, that's closer to what I meant.
I was also talking about normal orbits, not the highly excentric stuff you get after an explosion. Since the GP was about long term concerns, that's more fitting. Yes, the debris of this one explosion will be almost all (or maybe literally all) gone in a month.
And yes, hundreds of years is still an overstatement. But decades would be an understatement for many of the objects we put into LEO.
From severity to probability, nearly everything on news or discussion sites about Kessler Syndrome seems to be a severe misconception.
I was also talking about normal orbits, not the highly excentric stuff you get after an explosion. Since the GP was about long term concerns, that's more fitting. Yes, the debris of this one explosion will be almost all (or maybe literally all) gone in a month.
And yes, hundreds of years is still an overstatement. But decades would be an understatement for many of the objects we put into LEO.
From severity to probability, nearly everything on news or discussion sites about Kessler Syndrome seems to be a severe misconception.