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This is the first 1,000 characters of 565 words (2.26 pages) in the essay titled Meteorites Meteorite Impacts as a Threat to CivilizationImagine that while you’re on a peaceful Sunday afternoon stroll with your family, a large dark gray ball comes out of nowhere, just missing the head of your small child, shakes the earth, and produces a large crater in the ground a few feet ahead of you. This ball wasn’t from the young boys playing baseball across the street, and it wasn’t an acorn from the tree overhead. This ashen ball was a meteorite falling from the sky. A meteorite is a particle from space, large enough to enter the earth’s atmosphere, and potentially cause damage to the surface of the earth, a house, or a car. Although almost getting struck by a meteorite while outside on a walk is a very rare occurrence, a collision with a meteorite can be fatal. Scientists have never encountered a fatality due to a meteorite, but several deformations in the surface of the earth have been linked to meteorite collisions. A meteorite comes from an asteroid or is a chip off of a moon or other planet. Many times a planet or other solar object is heated beyond capacity and, consequently, explodes thrusting many fragments into the universe. Some of these fragments are large enough to successfully enter the earth’s atmosphere and hit the surface at amazing speeds. Most meteorites are blasted apart by fire while entering the earth’s atmosphere. Meteorites are often dark gray or black because of their fiery descent. They are very rough on the outside. They are often... |
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Keywords: meteorite impacts, earths atmosphere, meteorites, earth, element iridium, decipher, dark gray, fragments, scientists, gray ball, fiery descent, afternoon stroll, rare element, surface rocks, rare occurrence, falling from the sky, magnetic power, carbons, craters