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Chapman, Clark R. 1996 (7 March). Bombarding Mars lately.
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Chartrand, Mark R. 1995.
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky
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American Scientist
,
83
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Erwin, Douglas H. 1996 (July). The mother of mass extinctions.
Scientific American
,
275
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Gehrels, Tom. 1996 (March). Collisions with comets and asteroids.
Scientific American
,
274
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Glen, William. 1990 (July-August). What killed the dinosaurs?
American Scientist
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Kerr, Richard A. (1) 1996 (26 April). Are asteroids flying piles of rubble?
Science
,
272
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Science
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Science
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271
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Science
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Science
,
268
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Science
,
265
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Science
,
265
(5175): 1036. Guess what? Chesapeake Bay is the site of an asteroid impact of 35 million years ago. (8) 1994 (11 March). Testing an ancient impact’s punch.
Science
,
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Luu, Jane X., and David C. Jewitt. 1996 (May). The Kuiper belt.
Scientific American
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Scully, Vincent, Rudolph F. Zallinger, Leo J. Hickey, and John H. Ostrom. 1990.
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Smit, Jan. 1994 (28 April). Blind tests and muddy waters.
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,
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,
asteroids
,
and meteorites
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voyage through the Universe
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