Oldest-Known Asteroid Crater is Discovered in the Outback–Made More Than 3 Billion Years Ago

Unique geologic formations found in Western Australia have led a team of researchers to conclude that an asteroid struck the area around 3.57 billion years ago which would make it the oldest such impact site known. And it wouldn’t be even close. The second-oldest impact crater dates to around 2 billion years before our time. […] The post Oldest-Known Asteroid Crater is Discovered in the Outback–Made More Than 3 Billion Years Ago appeared first on Good News Network.

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