Asteroid Collision Illustration (IMAGE)

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Asteroid Collision Illustration

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This is an artist's rendering of the space collision 466 million years ago that gave rise to many of the meteorites falling today.

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Image credit: © Don Davis, Southwest Research Institute.

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