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From article <1988Nov11.213348.27877@utzoo.uucp>, by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
> In article <1068@esunix.UUCP> bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:
>>Could large clouds of ice crystals be used to "sweep"
>>orbits of small debris particles? 
> 
> Unfortunately, you need to sweep a spherical shell, not just a single orbit,
> since anything at the same altitude will intersect your orbit. 

Depending on how long the cloud persists it would eventually sweep out
a sherical shell. Especially if the cloud is in a polar orbit. The
question is how long will the cloud persist? My guess is that it won't
last long enough.

> Breaking the existing
> debris up into smaller bits is the *last* thing we want to do.

Not really. Even a fairly heavy rain of microscopic particles can be
stopped more easily than one large chunk.

			Bob P.
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