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Comment author: G0W51 05 March 2015 04:30:23PM 1 point [-]

I'm not so sure that space around Earth is nowhere near that point. There is a concern that a collision with the single large satellite Envisat could trigger Kessler Syndrome, and "two catalogued objects pass within about 200m of it every year."