The catalog contains information (metadata) related to the entire contents of the container as well as to individual objects.

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"The products in this market have focused either on individual objects or very specific processes between industries, " says Norbert Kriebel, an analyst with Giga Information Group in Cambridge, Mass.

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Clinton and Blair were introducing individual market mechanisms into an overall state structure, foreign objects into a preexisting beast, in a way that aimed to tame the worst excesses of each system, but did not radically redefine either.

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The idea is that Gaia's two telescopes will focus the stars on to the end of the array, and as these celestial objects then scan across the CCDs their positions and individual properties will be logged.

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Duran said she is aware that there is an international treaty that precludes ownership of extraterrestrial objects, but said the treaty applies only to countries, not to their individual citizens.

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