Answer by A. Bauani for What happens to materials which burn up during reentry?
What is the destination for mass of a candle when you light it up? Same things will happen if some inbound spacecraft speed towards earth surface hitting air molecules. Only difference is the outer...
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The products of combustion, apart from gases, are small solid particles, 'ash', that slowly floats down to the lower atmosphere and, eventually, to the surface.
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The common conception of satellite reentry is that they just burn up and are "gone". But the total mass must still be somewhere, right? What forms does it all end up as, and where?
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