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Falling metal space junk is changing Earth's upper atmosphere in ways we don't fully understand
(www.livescience.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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While this is certainly an interesting thing to know, there was no quantitative data provided about the discoveries. While a bunch of rare earth metals wandering around the atmosphere is certainly not a common occurrence, knowing whether we're talking about parts per billion or parts or parts per undecillion is a substantial difference (if Google didn't just lie to me, there are around one quattuordecillion molecules in our atmosphere, probably give or take a couple orders of magnitude).