>>81159353The thing about Kessler Syndrome is once things get small enough, they get pulled into earth's gravitational field and burn up in reentry anyway, or just land in the ocean if they can somehow withstand that. It doesn't just stay up there forever, an object has to move at 3 km/s in order to maintain orbit because technically objects in orbit are freefalling at all times, they stay there by moving farther horizontally in relation to the earth than the amount they are pulled vertically. This isn't super complicated, it's just how trajectory is calculated.
