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[i]European space scientists were aware of the potential for a close encounter between Russian and U.S. satellites before they crashed. But the difficulty of predicting orbits and "noise" from thousands of pieces of debris made a definitive prediction of a collision impossible. "The 'catalogue' of objects and debris showed a possible approach between the paths of the two satellites but an approach doesn't necessarily mean a collision, and you would need more information to be certain," said Philippe Goudy, deputy director of the French space operations control centre at Toulouse. "It is not a case of two satellites coming together out of nowhere; they had been followed. The U.S. catalogues can give an alert but these are not necessarily completely exact."[/i]
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