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chondrites rich in water, other volatiles and organic compounds
sections of asteroid belt orbits that are nearly preoccupied caused by orbital resonances with Jupiter
impact crater likely the evidence for the extinction of dinosaurs
a spherical cloud of icy bodies extending 10,000 to 100,000 AU from the Sun
objects with orbits between, or crossing, orbits of the Jovian planets
asteroids with orbits that carry them into the inner Solar System
the head of a comet
stony meteorites lacking chondrules and volatiles
planetary objects caught in Jupiter's Lagrange points
chondrites with calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions
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Centaurs
achondrites
coma
Oort cloud
Trojan asteroids
Chicxulub
Kirkwood gaps
Apollo-Armor objects
carbonaceous chondrites
CAIs
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chondrites rich in water, other volatiles and organic compounds
sections of asteroid belt orbits that are nearly preoccupied caused by orbital resonances with Jupiter
impact crater likely the evidence for the extinction of dinosaurs
a spherical cloud of icy bodies extending 10,000 to 100,000 AU from the Sun
objects with orbits between, or crossing, orbits of the Jovian planets
asteroids with orbits that carry them into the inner Solar System
the head of a comet
stony meteorites lacking chondrules and volatiles
planetary objects caught in Jupiter's Lagrange points
chondrites with calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions
Premises:
chondrites rich in water, other volatiles and organic compounds
sections of asteroid belt orbits that are nearly preoccupied caused by orbital resonances with Jupiter
impact crater likely the evidence for the extinction of dinosaurs
a spherical cloud of icy bodies extending 10,000 to 100,000 AU from the Sun
objects with orbits between, or crossing, orbits of the Jovian planets
asteroids with orbits that carry them into the inner Solar System
the head of a comet
stony meteorites lacking chondrules and volatiles
planetary objects caught in Jupiter's Lagrange points
chondrites with calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions
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