The Disappointing Reality of the Asteroid Belt | SciShow Tangents: Asteroids

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Sources:
[Trivia Question]

2020 QG asteroid flyby

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asteroid-makes-the-closest-earth-flyby-a-space-rock-has-ever-survived/

[Fact Off]

Libyan desert glass

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0022309384901777?via%3Dihub

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/47/7/609/570318/Overestimation-of-threat-from-100-Mt-class?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://www.mindat.org/min-39796.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X13004998

Hopewell asteroid event

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-debris-from-a-comet-airburst-devastate-an-early-native-american-culture-180979523/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05758-y

https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/02/did-comets-fiery-destruction-lead-to-downfall-of-ancient-hopewell.html

[Ask the Science Couch]

Asteroid belt won’t become a planet

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-science-fiction-movies/

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015IAUGA..2256597V/abstract

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/in-depth/

https://lasp.colorado.edu/outerplanets/kbos_dwarfplanets.php

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/origin?show=hs_origin_story_jupiters-influence

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-asteroid-belt-wreckage-of-a-destroyed-planet-or-something-else

https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/k/Kirkwood+Gaps

[Butt One More Thing]

Meteorism medical condition farts

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430851/

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meteorism