actual title: "Potential Perturbation of the Ionosphere by Megaconstellations and Corresponding Artificial Re-entry Plasma Dust"<p>> Here it will be shown that the mass of the conductive particles left behind from worldwide distribution of re-entry satellites is already billions of times greater than the mass of the Van Allen Belts.<p>made me say "really?" so i went and found this: <a href="https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/RBSP7.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/RBSP7.pdf</a><p>That estimates the mass of the Van Allen belts at <i>11 grams</i><p>Which makes me wonder about the disparity in energy levels between the classes of particles and if its a case of talking about icebergs vs superheated steam.