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Solar System
Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids
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| Pregnancy Test for Mars |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
06/02/02 |
| The test that tells women they are pregnant might also be able to find signs of living organisms on Mars. |
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| Do We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs? |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
06/02/02 |
| What killed the dinosaurs? Many geologists and paleontologists now think that a large asteroid or comet impacting the Earth must have caused a global catastrophe that led to this extensive loss of life. |
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| The Tagish Lake Meteorite |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
01/28/02 |
| A scientific consortium of 4 universities and NASA is now trying to uncover the debris and sample the early solar system's unique chemistry. |
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| NASA Scientist Finds Some Meteorites Not Sugar-free |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
01/25/02 |
| A discovery by a NASA scientist of sugar and several related organic compounds in two carbonaceous meteorites provides the first evidence that another fundamental building block of life on Earth may have come from outer space. |
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| Carbonaceous Clues to the Early Solar System |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
10/12/01 |
| Carbonaceous chondrite meteorites contain vital clues to the evolution of carbon compounds in our solar system preceding the origin of life. |
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| Do We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs? |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
06/15/01 |
| What killed the dinosaurs? Many geologists and paleontologists now think that a large asteroid or comet impacting the Earth must have caused a global catastrophe that led to this extensive loss of life. |
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| A Visit to Cupid for Valentine's Day |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
02/12/01 |
| On February 12, NEAR Shoemaker becomes the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. Its findings may tell us something about our planet, our solar system, and solar systems beyond our own. |
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| Life Under Bombardment |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
11/27/00 |
| Does Greenland give a clue as to whether life was seeded twice: 'stock' cultures surviving one big impact event? Life Under Bombardment looks for the evidence of our terrestrial past. |
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