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No, debris in the same orbit would fall much more quickly than satellites, due to the square/cube difference, a larger piece gets slowed much less than many smaller pieces with the same combined mass.

Also, "the same orbit" is the best/worst case scenario, since after an impact any new orbit still passes through the point of impact, but if the new orbit is more elliptic than the original (which most likely was close to circular), then it has a lower perigee, where most of the drag occurs, and thus would get dragged down faster than in the original orbit.

If a satellite is in a low orbit that needs re-boosting every few years, then the debris from its destruction would get cleared out in weeks or months.



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