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Impact! Aims
- To present the asteroid belt, a region of small, generally rocky bodies that orbit the Sun mainly between Mars and Jupiter.
- To introduce the concept that Solar System bodies collide with one another from time to time, and to give various examples of such cosmic impacts, including meteorite falls.
- To show how robot spacecraft are being used to tell us more about the nature of asteroids and comets.
- To give some examples of how the consequences of cosmic impacts on Earth might be avoided.
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