Ancient Asteroid Boiled Oceans, Burned the Sky, and Shook Earth for Half Hour

These days we freak out whenever some dinky bollide explodes in the sky over Russia. But scientists have now reconstructed the effects of an enormous 3.26-billion-year-old asteroid impact on Earth that boiled the oceans, turned the sky red hot, and generated a half-hour-long earthquake that shook the planet. Though we have heard about ancient impacts […]

















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