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Scientists Round up New Suspect In Case of Vanishing Mammoths
(November/December 2007) 
Asteroid Impact Could Have Cleared the Decks for Dinosaurs' Rise to Prominence
(September/October 2006) 
Planetary 'Eggbeaters' Stirred Up Early Solar System
(September/October 2005) 
Meteorites Showered Earth with Phosphorus
(November/December 2004) 
Great Impact May Have Caused 'Great Dying'
(July/August 2004) 
The Little Probe that Could: Low-Budget NEAR Knocks the Socks off Scientists
(May/June 2001) 
Dinosaurs Come, Dinosaurs Go
(May/June 2001) 
Earth Dodges a Few Hundred Asteroids
(March/April 2000) 
Earth Dodges Another Cosmic Bullet
(September/October 1999) 
Earth Has Date With an Asteroid
(July/August 1999) 
Geologists Find Killer Crater Under Arctic Sea
(May/June 1999) 
Cosmic Dust: Accomplice in Dinosaur Death?
(July/August 1998) 
The End of the…Oh, Never Mind
(May/June 1998) 
Ancient Impact Left Chain of Craters
(May/June 1998) 
Cosmic Collision Could Crunch Coasts
(March/April 1998) 
Supercomputer Simulates Comet Impact In 3D
(July/August 1997) 

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