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The amusing and irrelevant sole link at the end of the article:
See also: Space Debris.
I came across the paper planes entry from the "See also" section in the atmospheric entry article.
Fun facts I learned: roughly the probability at least one person currently alive have been or will be struck by falling space debris from reentering satellites is 1% and 3% of the matter which enters the atmosphere is from satellites compared to meteors.