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Hey! Welcome to our site on asteroids and comets. Here you can play a physics based asteroid game, learn about how backyard astronomers are contributing to asteroid research, or hit any spot in the world with an asteroid using our Google Earth Impact simulation.

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Where do they come from...

...and where are they going? Comets versus asteroids, the Oort cloud versus the Asteroid Belt.

Loosely bound piles of trouble

Asteroids can be single rocks, or lots of little ones. And it matters if you want to move one.

What are the odds?

How bad would it be? And do you have more important things to worry about?

... and Backyard astronomers

How much can you learn from a dot of light using a backyard telescope?

...FAQs, Links, and More

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