asteroid
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In a classic episode, Elroy goes to an asteroid on a school field trip.
However, another theory proposed that a comet or asteroid impact over North America triggered the event.
From Science Daily
More than two centuries after asteroid 16 Psyche was first identified, scientists are still trying to determine how it formed.
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About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth and unleashed one of the most destructive events in the planet's history.
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According to a report in the December 2009 issue of Geoscientist magazine, most participants rejected the asteroid impact explanation at the time.
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