By The Byte
Published on April 17, 2024
The Earth is a ball magnet that we’re surrounding with fast-moving metal trash.
Dead satellites and other debris are constantly burning up as they fall out of Earth’s orbit.
Conventional wisdom is destroying all that space junk is good, because it keeps orbit less cluttered. But it may have harmful effects on our planet’s magnetic field, as plasma physicist and former Air Force research scientist Sierra Solter — the author of a contentious and yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper — argues in a new essay for The Guardian.