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quantainium_pasta t1_j0d315d wrote

Reply to comment by contravariant_ in Russian space capsule leak likely caused by micrometeorite by getBusyChild

Yeah, that was my main concern.

All that liquid leaking... it's gonna freeze, I assume? And then you have basically billions of particles flying around in the ISS orbital plane.

Even if it's not frozen, matter is still just matter, and the kinetic energy it has while flying around is the same.

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5up3rK4m16uru t1_j0dtglh wrote

It can only freeze or evaporate in vacuum, and due to the sun it's likely going to do the latter eventually. Also smaller objects tend to experience faster orbital decay, since they are more affected by drag. Quite relevant at the altitude of the ISS.

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