asteroid
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Its presence in asteroids and comets supports the idea that some of the raw materials for life were created in space and later delivered to Earth.
From Science Daily
Ever since the Moon formed, asteroid strikes have played the leading role in shaping its surface.
From Science Daily
United’s chief financial officer this week likened the industry’s 2025 to being hit with multiple asteroids.
Through no fault of our own, we might be hit by a planet-sterilizing asteroid or a civilization-threatening eruption of solar flares or radiation—long before our planet is inevitably swallowed up by the sun.
That is more than four times the size of the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
From Science Daily
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