Asteroids-+An+Introduction

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The first few paragraphs of this site simply describes a regular day on the earth 65 million years ago, namely describing the air being humid, certain dinosaurs running around or flying around, and others drinking from a lake near by. All of a sudden, an asteroid smashes into the ground and wipes the entire planet clean of all living things. Some reasons why we are interested in asteroids:
 * 1) To know where asteroids are, how big they are, and what the chances are that one might hit us: as the beginning of the page showed, the dinosaurs and most life on earth were wiped out by an asteroid colliding with earth- thus it is rather important that we keep close watch over the asteroids incase this were to happen again.
 * 2) Asteroids, depending on what they are made of, could provide us with needed mineral resources that may become important as we use up mineral deposits here on Earth.
 * 3) Astronomers are interested in asteroids because of what they can tell us about the origin and formation of the Solar System and our own Earth.