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Meteorites: How big is safe?
A meteorite impact in Peru raises disturbing questions about our vulnerability to such threats from space 鈥� and sheds light on controversial impacts in human history
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Largest asteroid to come near Earth for 19 years
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Comet samples are surprisingly asteroid-like
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Risk of Mars impact drops to 1 in 10,000
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Meteor shower’s origin remains a mystery
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Possible Mars impact highlights risk to Earth
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Asteroid may hit Mars in January
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Small asteroids can pack a mighty punch
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Space probe targets third comet after second vanishes
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Did a comet kick-start Earth’s plate tectonics?
A large impact billions of years ago could have initiated the formation and then the movement of the planet's crust, says a researcher
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Deflected asteroids may keep coming back
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Astronomers defend asteroid warning mix-up
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NASA blasted for ignoring smaller asteroids
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Dazzling comet outburst continues to mystify
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