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Originally Posted by Torplexed
In terms of producing debris, this impact was about as bad as you can get. The energy involved was amazing. It might take weeks or even months to catalog all of the pieces. I don't see any rational reason for a nation as large as Russia to screw up their own badly needed communication satellites with junk in space.
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Evidently, it doesn't bother the Chinese to do the same thing (on a smaller scale)
http://www.space.com/news/070202_china_spacedebris.html