Gallery: Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards
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This site consists of a gallery of artists' conceptions of catastrophic strikes on Earth by asteroids or comets, including the impact which occurred at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary and is suspected of causing mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Links to other related sites and a short movie of the Peekskill, New York meteorite, which fell in 1993, are also included.
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Topics and Grades
Grade: 9 to 12
Topics: Earth's Resources, Evolution and Adaptation, Science, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Physics
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- Interactives
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