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    approximately 18 m (59 ft) diameter, 9,100-tonne (10,000-short-ton) near-Earth asteroid that entered the atmosphere at a shallow 18.3 ± 0.4 degree angle with a...
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    Opened the Asteroid Container and Holy Crap That's a Lot of Asteroid - After months of struggling to get to the bulk of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample, the...
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    Starfish (category Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville)
    referred to as brittle stars or basket stars. Starfish are also known as asteroids due to being in the class Asteroidea. About 1,900 species of starfish...
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    space. Meteoroids are distinguished as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide. Objects smaller...
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  • Huang, E. J.; Román-Carrion, J. L.; Bever, G. S. (2024). "New insights into the origin of the Galápagos tortoises with a tip-dated analysis of Testudinidae"...
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  • the series after two seasons. The show centers on the discovery of an asteroid that will impact the Earth in just six months, highlighting the attempts...
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    of the Year (1988) Pace car driver for the Indianapolis 500 (2006) An asteroid, 1994 JE9 was named 12373 Lancearmstrong in honor of him. Six-mile Lance...
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    Capítulo IX: Luís de Camões. p. 331. Soutto-Mayor, Maciel (1867). Archivo pittoresco, Volume 10 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Tip. de Castro Irmão. pp. 341–342...
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    Extinction event (redirect from E.l.e.)
    1016/j.epsl.2006.09.009. hdl:10044/1/1208. Joel L (21 October 2019). "The dinosaur-killing asteroid acidified the ocean in a flash: The Chicxulub event...
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    flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed. This model, known as the...
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