Satellites orbiting the Earth have finite life and sometimes debris of satellites fall to the Earth. This is because:
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As the total energy of the Earth satellite bounded system is negative 
, where, 
is radius
of the satellite and M is mass of the Earth.
Due to the viscous force acting on satellite, energy decreases continuously and radius of the orbit or height decreases gradually.
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