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This resource covers meteors; meteor showers, such as Leonids; the relationship between meteor showers and comets; fireballs; classification of meteorites into chondrite, iron and carbonaceous chondrite meteorites; and meteorite impacts, including their velocities. There is information on a meteorite that may have come from the asteroid Vesta; a Mars meteorite that may hold evidence of life; the relation between the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction (commonly known as the K-T Event), the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan region of Mexico, and dinosaur extinction; and antarctic meteorites. There is also a video clip of the Peekskill fireball of 1992, and a photograph of the Barringer Crater of Arizona.
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