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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Vishwam Sankaran

Earth’s oldest asteroid impact crater may just have been found

The oldest asteroid crater on the Earth is over 3 billion years old, according to a new study that sheds more light on our planet’s earliest history.

Researchers from Curtin University investigated rock formations at the North Pole Dome in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, long debated as an ancient asteroid-impact structure.

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