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planetary defense
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The Shocking Scale: How Big Was the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs?
What makes this catastrophe even more astonishing is that the asteroid’s size, while enormous by human standards, was actually average for its class of...
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The Hidden Universe: What Is an Asteroid and Why It Shapes Our Cosmic Story
The first recorded observation of an asteroid dates back to 1801, when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted Ceres—a world so small it defied classification as a planet. For...