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AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Vacuum Cleaner

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Astronomy & Astrophysics
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AST101H1
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Michael Reid

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Heats our atmosphere (really fast, that it actually burns atmosphere) Earth is bombarded from particles in space. Object from space that hits earth, but initially were bigger (10 meter bigger) when it goes through atmosphere it burns down and only small rocks are left over by time it hits us. Sudbury sitting on a meteor crater (10 km size- size of downtown toronto), hit earth and generated big crater with it came a lot of nickel and copper. Meteor: flash of light in the sky as a particle enters the atmosphere. Meteorite piece of rock from space that has fallen to ground. Comet shoemaker-levy 9: comets aligned because it was so close to jupiter so it got ripped apart.

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