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Uranus National Geographic says, “many astronomers suspect that a body the size of Earth once struck the big planet and knocked it askew. (p. 41) It is noteworthy to point out that there are no basic differences in the composition of asteroids, meteor- ites, meteors—regardless of whether they are big, little, in space, or on the earth. Why there are so many names for the same thing is beyond us ... (p. 51) There are other, much larger asteroids roaming around in our celestial backyard — just waiting to make their presence known. Some of these dark demons are hard to detect. These demons are called Hermes, Adonis, Apollo, and Eros. Asteroids “An asteroid weighing some 150 million tons and travelling some 45,000 miles per hour came very close to earth on mn May 19, 1996,” wrote editor Brent Raynes i in Alternate Perceptions. (p. 251) Another asteroid approached earth in 1992. It has a destructive power of 20 million megatons, the force of 1,600,000 Hiroshima bombs. (p. 253) It is speculated by astrophysicists that the sea water on the earth may have come from the impact of ice laden comets. (p. 66) 234 Appendix B: Book Abstracts Space Debris Oceans from Space Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation