Space dust fossils are providing a new window onto Earth’s past

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#Space dust fossils are providing a new window onto Earth’s past

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“#Space dust fossils are providing a new window onto Earth’s past” Fossil meteorites from the mid-Ordovician period, around 460 million years ago, indicate that Earth may have been hit by debris from an asteroid collision at that time. Credit: Birger Schmitz To be a meteorite hunter means to search for the unutterably rare. On any…