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Originally Posted by plasmodium
I think NASA said it would re-enter in a few days..... You'd be dark though if your billion dollar satellite were taken out by a golf ball scooting around though wouldn't you!
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one would hope that NASA has determined the orbit and that this comes nowhere near any communication satellites and any spybirds that at least they know about, but I am very surprised (without doing the numbers) that something as small as a golfball would encounter sufficient friction for its orbit to decay in only a few days.