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The Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected In The Main Belt

The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That’s about as wide as Brooklyn. Such a massive impactor is predicted to hit Earth […]

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Shocked Quartz Reveals Evidence Of Historical Cosmic Airburst During The Younger Dryas

Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed into the Earth’s atmosphere 12,800 years ago, causing a widespread […]

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