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You would not be attracting stationary objects, you would be attracting things flying past at tens of thousands of whatever unit per hour you like best. Gravity is nowhere near strong enough to affect these objects for purposes of collecting them.


You don't need to collect them, just perturb their orbit enough that they burn up in a reasonably short time.

Still not viable I assume, but...


I doubt you can put an extra small moon into space, but maybe you could bring in a massive asteroid?

I guess the big problem is that it’d affect the intact satallites a lot more than the debris.




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