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Ancient asteroid collision boosts biodiversity on Earth: study

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Xinhua (China)

Publication Date
2019-09-19

An international team of scientists found that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago diversified life on Earth. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances showed that the breakup of a major asteroid between Jupiter and Mars filled the entire inner solar system with enormous amounts of dust.

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