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  • n  thought to derive from meteorites

  • The fragments of single stony meteorites could not cover large areas of the earth's surface, such as the tektite patches splattered over big parts of Texas, Libya and Australia.
  • As the comet's head, or nucleus, struck the earth's surface, tons of molten rock would be hurled thousands of miles, falling and hardening in tektite-like patterns far from the .

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