Killer asteroids. (Earth/space science: asteroids).(colliding into planet Earth)

Science World | March 28, 2003| | Copyright

It happens once in a great while: a mountain of rock crashes out of the sky at a rate 20 times faster than a speeding bullet. With an indescribable explosion, it turns Earth into a cataclysm of fire and dust storms, earthquakes, tidal waves. When the last such disaster occurred on Earth 65 million years ago, it wiped out three quarters of the planet's life forms--including the dinosaurs. What hit?

An asteroid, one of many billions of space rocks orbiting the sun. Scientists think asteroids--which range in size from a meter in diameter to as wide as 932 kilometers ...

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