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> Small particles like engine exhaust are a problem (they can cause pitting, etc), not large objects

Tell that to Iridium, who gets too many collision warnings a week to act on them, and lost of functioning satellite. The collision was between 2 large objects for the record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision




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