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		justrealist on May 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Saturn's rings are far younger than once thought No, the vast majority is in LEO and will drop in a few decades.

dotancohen on May 14, 2023 [–]

The Geo sats will stay up for millions of years though. The graveyard orbits, just a few hundreds of km above Geo, brushes up on ten million years from what I've been told. I can not actually find a reliable source online that gives any number.

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