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Asteroid crash: a test run to save humanity | Learn English phrasal verb 'set off'

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Plain English lesson 515: If an asteroid were heading for Earth, could we knock it off course? We're about to find out. About 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid struck the Earth near what is today the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The impact was so strong that it killed three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, including all the dinosaurs.

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