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Asteroid 2007 WD5 may hit Mars next month
Dec 21 2007, Shanmughanathan

In 2004, people saw comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smacking into Jupiter. It was pretty cool. Now, scientists are even more excited that an asteroid speeding at 8 miles per second is on its way to hit planet Mars. Even though it is predicted that there is...

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