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Before our Solar System had planets, it had planetesimals. Scientists think that most of the meteorites that have struck Earth…
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20% of the surface of Earth's Eastern Hemisphere is littered with a certain kind of rock. Black, glossy blobs called…
About 466 million years ago, there was an asteroid collision in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The collision…
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A meteorite recently was spotted in the Great Lakes region and could have left fragments in the area around Bancroft,…
A new study reveals why many meteors, when they enter Earth's atmosphere, become cone-shaped as they heat up.