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the head of a comet
planetary objects caught in Jupiter's Lagrange points
stony meteorites lacking chondrules and volatiles
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
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
chondrites with calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions
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achondrites
Chicxulub
Apollo-Armor objects
Trojan asteroids
CAIs
Centaurs
coma
carbonaceous chondrites
Oort cloud
Kirkwood gaps
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the head of a comet
planetary objects caught in Jupiter's Lagrange points
stony meteorites lacking chondrules and volatiles
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
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
chondrites with calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions
Premises:
the head of a comet
planetary objects caught in Jupiter's Lagrange points
stony meteorites lacking chondrules and volatiles
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
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
chondrites with calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions
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