Scientists have traced the origins of the Lafayette Meteorite back to Mars, dating its water-altered minerals to 742 million ...
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The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...
Some billions of years ago, Earth was a very different place. Long before life appeared on Earth, countless meteorites rained down on it. One such impact, known as the S2 event, occurred about 3. ...
that were particularly prevalent in certain years to narrow down when it might have fallen, and whether the meteorite fall may have been witnessed by someone," Tremblay says. Meteorites ...
But dinosaurs were still a long time away from roaming Earth when S2 crashed down about 3.26 billion years ago. The meteorite was estimated to have been up to 200 times larger than the extinction ...
Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet. One such space rock crashed down about 3.26 billion years ago ...
A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red Planet’s geological history. Using isotopic dating, a team at Purdue University ...
The meteorite was 40-60km in diameter and left ... “Imagine a rain cloud, but instead of water droplets coming down, it's like molten rock droplets raining out of the sky,” says Prof Drabon.