If you jumped off the ISS, how long would it take for your body to de-orbit?

The question was raised in a recent .world news article comment https://lemmy.world/post/25766196

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Depends how hard you jump, and in which direction
- I read the ISS orbits at about 8km/s so I assumed the speed of a few m/s jump in any direction would be negligible but I really have no idea
  
  How about perpendicularly?
Not sure exactly what the drag coefficient of a human is, but astroconverter.com and azcalculator.com suggest an orbital decay time somewhere between 2 to 5 years.

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