Massive asteroid impact 3 billion years ago

[Brian G Turner]

The BBC reports on a massive asteroid impact 3 billion years ago that was far bigger than the one that occurred with the demise of the dinosaurs:

S2 meteorite: What happened when a rock as big as London hit Earth?

It was 200 times bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs nearly three billion years later.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Really interesting!

 

[Matteo]

Very interesting. Though an oddly written article. For example:
They were looking for spherule particles, or tiny fragments of rock, left behind by impact. Using sledge hammers, they collected hundreds of kilograms of rock and took them back to labs for analysis. Prof Drabon stowed the most precious pieces in her luggage.

That would never get by RyanAir

And here is the paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408721121

 

[paranoid marvin]

Trust the BBC to be 3,000,000,000 years behind on their news reporting.

 

[BAYLOR]

And the really sad part is , here we are reading about it second it hand. Why can't such a momentous event happen in out lifetimes? It's so unfair