The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

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A trio of geologists and environmental scientists from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ...

Rocks were flying everywhere, willy-nilly, smacking into the newly formed planets, pocking them with craters and gouging out ...

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...

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The SPA basin's age has long been debated, with scientists aiming to pinpoint the timing of the impact that created it.

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“Despite this, the formation age of the SPA basin remains poorly constrained ... There’s only faint evidence of most impacts.