This website deals with past and future asteroid impacts with Earth. Resources are being added continually.
Here are several links to good websites.
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1997 XF11: asteroid collision in 2028?, NASA
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1997 XF11 asteroid, NASA
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Asteroid and comet impact hazard, NASA
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Asteroids and comets fact sheet, NASA
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Asteroid fossil from K-T impact, NSF (abstract)
- Chicxlob Crater from Space
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Cosmic Earth Impacts, NASA
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Meteorite impact summary, Canadian Geological Survey
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Mars meteorites, JPL
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Near Earth asteroid rendezvous, Johns Hopkins (breaking news)
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Near Earth meteorite detection, NASA
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Terrestrial Impact Craters
Scanned publications are summarized below:
- Goodbye to the Warm Little Pond?, Science, 1990
- Giant Crater Linked to Mass Extinction, Science News, 1992
- Petrology of impact-melt rocks at the Chicxulub multiring basin, Yucatan, Mexico, 1994
- The Call of Catastrophes, Science News, 1998
- Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary cocktail: Chicxulub impact
triggers margin collapse and extensive sediment gravity flows,
Geology, 1998
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Upheaval Dome, Utah: an eroded meteorite impact crator
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Upheaval Dome: a pinched-off salt diapir, G.S.A. Bulletin, 1998
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