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If a tiny bit of undirected evaporation is enough to push the fragment to deorbit, it's already so low that it would have deorbited on its own very soon anyway.

In that case evaporating it completely would be a better option, as a gas it's harmless




You overestimate the ease of evaporating something and umderestimate the effectiveness of a little bit of thrust.




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