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human
What effect will impending meteor shower (23rd-24th) have on satellites in orbit?

Will they have to change course or will the particles hit them?
gpt
No, they won't change course, and there's very little chance of an impact. 

We don't even detect these particles before they hit the atmosphere, for the most part. They are quite small. We do track space debris that is in orbit around the earth, and satellites (particularly the ISS) do make adjustments to avoid collisions with known pieces of debris, but the particles that make up meteor showers don't even get close enough to easily detect until they're *very* close indeed, and then there's not much time to move satellites out of the way anyway.

But the chances of a collision are, well, astronomically small. It's like the chances of two golfers at a driving range having their golf balls collide in midair-- but even less likely than that. In a given meteor shower like this one, usually the most massive rocks won't be more than a few dozen pounds, and the majority of them will be more like pebbles. The area of low earth orbit is pretty similar to the surface area of the Earth (500 million square kilometers) and the chances of a satellite maybe ~10 meters across colliding with a rock maybe 10 cm across is very low.