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in 1994. It has been estimated, however, that the likelihood of such an event occurring on Earth is vanishingly small because the Earth's weaker gravitational field is much less able than
Jupiter's to pull a speeding object close enough to be torn apart by tidal forces. However, evidence of serial
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periods (320 ± 10 Ma). Difficulty in determining the age of many of the structures and doubts about the exogenic origins of several of them leave some
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541:Jupiter
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