{"id":34093,"date":"2026-04-29T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34093"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:03:06","slug":"a-giant-uncontrolled-experiment-in-atmospheric-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34093","title":{"rendered":"A GIANT UNCONTROLLED EXPERIMENT IN ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Space Weather News for April 28, 2026<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=7854083181&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">Free Space Weather Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only April, but satellite re-entries this year have already added more than 5 metric tons of aluminum oxide to Earth&#8217;s upper atmosphere. SpaceX is the primary contributor, but their competitors are catching up in this unprecedented planetary-scale chemistry experiment. Full story @\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=f3aba81cdd&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">Spaceweather.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/graph_strip2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/graph_strip2-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/graph_strip2-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/graph_strip2.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Above:<\/strong>\u00a0A histogram of annual Starlink reentry totals<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=31e4b051d4&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">Sign up for our free Space Weather newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Weather News for April 28, 2026 Free Space Weather Newsletter It&#8217;s only April, but satellite re-entries this year have already added more than 5 metric tons of aluminum oxide to Earth&#8217;s upper atmosphere. SpaceX is the primary contributor, but their competitors are catching up in this unprecedented planetary-scale chemistry experiment. Full story @\u00a0Spaceweather.com. Above:\u00a0A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A GIANT UNCONTROLLED EXPERIMENT IN ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34095,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34093\/revisions\/34095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}