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Recreating the Extreme Forces of an Asteroid Impact in the Lab


ut 50,000 years ago, a nickel-iron meteorite some 50 meters across plowed into the Pleistocene-era grasslands of what is now Northern Arizona. It was traveling fast—about 13 kilometers per second.

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