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Chaotic early solar system collisions resembled ‘Asteroids’ arcade game

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One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. Nearly 30 years later, a new analysis of that same Peekskill meteorite and 17 others has led to a new hypothesis about how asteroids formed during the early years of the solar system.

Source: ScienceDaily.com