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Where will falling Phobos-Grunt spacecraft land?

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The Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt is expected to come crashing back to Earth at the weekend after a serious malfunction.

No-one knows exactly when or where it will land, but its imminent re-entry has focused attention on the increasing amount of space debris, as David Shukman reports.

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