500 Million Years of Data Shows Meteorites Hit Earth Way Less Than What Scientists Thought
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500 Million Years of Data Shows Meteorites Hit Earth Way Less Than What Scientists Thought

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Scientists at Lund University in Sweden tracked meteorite impacts on earth that happened over the past 500 million years. To scientists' surprise, the influx of meteorites – space rocks – has been surprisingly stable despite major collisions happening in the asteroid belt of our solar system. Using the information from chromium oxide that came from almost 10,000 meteorites, the astronomers reconstructed 500 million years of past impacts. Scientists were surprised by the result that “only one of the 70 largest asteroid collisions that took place over the past 500 million years resulted in an increased flux of meteorites to Earth," says Schmitz.

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