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comets are mad of entirely ice and dust and they have holes at which gasses are exhausted and the comet may change course at anymoment asteroids are particuly one once course intill a planet nudges that couse shuch as Jupiter wich sometimes aims some close to earth wich are then called near earth collisions THEY MADE THE FINAL BLOW TO THE DINOS!

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Asteroids formed inside the frost line, while comets formed outside.

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