A second asteroid may have struck Earth when the dinosaurs died out
17 August 2022
A possible impact crater under the sea off West Africa might have been made by a smaller piece that broke off the asteroid that wiped out most dinosaurs
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Craters on the moon show that it and Earth faced a massive increase in large meteorite strikes about 290 million years ago, which could have endangered life on the planet
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13 August 2018
The oldest rocks ever found are over four billion years old and we don’t know how they formed – but a massive asteroid bombardment may be responsible
The hottest place ever recorded on Earth's surface was 2370°C
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