asteroid
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The page focuses on science communication and aims to distinguish genuine risks from unfounded speculation about meteorites and asteroids.
From Science Daily
Beyond the turbulent asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter lies the Kuiper Belt, a distant region past Neptune filled with frozen remnants from the solar system's earliest days.
From Science Daily
Some crave adventure while others see the planet as a backup home in the event that Earth is rendered uninhabitable by an asteroid strike or runaway climate change.
Near the town of Interior: Parts of Badlands National Park depict the surface of an asteroid in “Armageddon,” starring Bruce Willis.
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.
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