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Researchers Match Up 12 Meteorites with the Near-Earth Asteroids They Came From


very day meteoroids blast through our planet's atmosphere to hit the ground as meteorites. A team of researchers in Italy traced twelve of them to progenitor asteroids that orbit in near-Earth space.

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