article_snippet: It’s the same thing we worry about if satellites were to be destroyed in low-Earth orbit,’ said Professor Laughlin.
article_snippet: Their fragments would start smashing into other satellites and you’d risk a chain reaction of collisions.
article_snippet: The resulting debris would then have spiraled into the sun under the influence of a strong ‘headwind’ from the dense gas still swirling around the sun.
article_snippet: ‘The ingoing avalanche would have destroyed any newly-formed super-Earths by driving The ingoing avalanche into the sun,’ said Professor Laughlin.