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He says some of the projections by the stay side are all "doom and gloom", joking that the only possible negative they failed to include is "a large asteroid hitting Canada".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Those measurements bolstered the idea that the asteroid impact intensified volcanic activity, creating a one-two punch that contributed to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

That places the impact around 100 million years before a major increase in cratering on Earth that researchers have suggested may be connected to collisions within the asteroid belt.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Some researchers think Phobos is an asteroid that was captured by Mars, while others argue that it formed from debris thrown into orbit after a massive object slammed into the planet.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Sixty-six million years ago, give or take a few centuries, an asteroid about the size of Manhattan Island slammed into Earth near what we now call the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

The Exoasteroids project gives citizen scientists the chance to look for evidence of asteroids beyond our Solar System.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

This occurs when the Earth passes through trials of debris from asteroids or comets.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of debris from asteroids or comets - a snowball of frozen rock and gas orbiting the Sun.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

As of July 2001, twenty-six thousand asteroids had been named and identified–half in just the previous two years.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson