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