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Katamari is a Japanese term used for "clump" or "clod".

It is basically what dung beetles do. They roll things up until they're bigger. The bigger the ball, the faster it grows from size. Like making a snowman.

I'm referring to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEAP-4iUirY

To answer your question, in this sense: I mean to say that the more space debris there is hurtling through our orbit capturing other space debris, the more likely we are to end up with micrometeroids building up mass, momentum and velocity until we just end up with an extremely hostile environment for our satellites and vehicles.



Ah, thanks. I'd found a videogame ref, based on the same definition I now realise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari

There is an established term, Kessler syndrome, effectively a runaway debris cascade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome




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