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What Does the Future Hold for Humankind?

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Meteorite Impact!

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July 17 1994: impact on Jupiter! Th e world held its breath as the fi rst fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed a hole the size of Earth into the largest planet in our Solar System (Fig. 13, page 26).

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Reimold, W.U., Gibson, R.L. (2010). What Does the Future Hold for Humankind?. In: Meteorite Impact!., vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10464-0_7

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