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Impact Cratering 
  
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Lunar and Planetary Institute
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This Lunar and Planetary Institute webpage provides information about the characteristics and formation of impact craters on Earth and the moon. Earth's significant impact craters…
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/shaping_the_planets/impact-cr...
Impact Craters  [ Book Section ]
  
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This page is a section from a teacher's guide covering the moon and lunar features. In this section, the guide includes a explanation of lunar craters, and student activities…
http://web.archive.org/web/20190122165446/https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/18057...
Bad Astronomy: Death by Meteorite 
  
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This blog post on Bad Astronomy explains how the odds of being killed by a meteorite (or asteroid) are much greater than the odds of only being hit by one. The article also describes…
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/death-by-meteorite
Surface Properties of the Moon 
  
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville Department of Physics and Astronomy
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This page provides a description of the lunar surface. The page contains one about the Maria and the Lunar Highlands, as well as the cratering density and the lunar surface material.…
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackman/ast104/moon_surface.html
Mare Humboldtianum Constellation region of interest 
  
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This NASA Lunar Science Institute page focuses on the difference between the surface material of the Maria and the Lunar Highlands. A close-in view of the Mare Humboldtianum zooms in…
https://lunarscience.nasa.gov/articles/mare-humboldtianum-constellation-...
What Really Killed the Dinosaurs? 
  
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This article from the BBC describes some of the controversy in the theory that the mass extinction of the Cretaceous period was caused by a meteorite impact. The crater thought by…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dino_prog_summary.sht...
Do We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs? 
  
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This article from the NASA Astrobiology Institute raises some issues in the accepted theory that the mass extinction event of the late Cretaceous was caused by a meteorite impact.…
http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/do-we-know-what-killed-the-dinosa...
20 Ways the World Could End 
  
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Publisher: Discover
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This article from Discover magazine overviews twenty ways the planet could experience mass extinction or worse. Examples include asteroid impact, alien invasion, and gamma-ray bursts.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/20-ways-the-world-could-en...
CICLOPS: Cassini Imaging 
  
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Visit this site for images from the Cassini mission to the outer planets. Don't miss the text on the homepage and especially the movie "Planet Wars" (with sound).
http://ciclops.org/
Solar System Builder 
  
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Publisher: National Geographic
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The Solar System Builder enables you create a solar system and watch how it evolves over time. You can choose the type of star and the size and initial velocity of the planets…
https://demo.neo-pangea.com/archive/natgeo/solar-system-builder/
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