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Cosmic Queries – Asteroid Hunters with Marina Brozovic

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The Comet That Breaks Apart From Gravity

Comet that broke apart from gravity slammed into Jupiter. Hubble telescope was just freshened a couple of years earlier and we turned every ground based telescope to it. It was the first time we ever witnessed a major comet slamming into another object in the solar system. And so what I wonder is who was looking at our planet when that same size asteroid hit Earth and took out the dinosaurs with it?

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