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    If a Major Asteroid Collision in the Asteroid Belt Occurs
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If a Major Asteroid Collision in the Asteroid Belt Occurs

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If a major asteroid collision in the asteroid belt occurs, on average, 1 time in 100,000 years, then how many major collisions have occurred over the approximately 4 billion year history of the solar system?


A) about 4,000
B) about 4 billion
C) about 4 million
D) about 40,000

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