Asteroid Dust may Influence Weather Study Finds

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	Written by Astroman
Saturday, 03 September 2005
In a study to be published this week, scientists from the Australian Antarctic division, together with other scientists, found evidence that dust from an asteroid burning up as it descended through earth's atmosphere, formed a cloud of micron-sized particles significant enough to influence local weather in Antartica.

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