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04-17-2014, 09:54 PM
Giant Asteroid Set Earth's Crust in Motion 3 Billion Years Ago
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Earth was still a violent place shortly after life began, with regular impactors arriving from space. For the first time, scientists have modeled the effects of one such violent event - the strike of a giant asteroid. The effects were so catastrophic that, along with the large earthquakes and tsunamis it created, this asteroid may have also set continents into motion.
The asteroid to blame for this event would have been at least 37km in diameter, which is roughly four times the size of the asteroid that is alleged to have caused the death of di**saurs. It would have hit the surface of the Earth at the speed of about 72,000kph and created a 500km-wide crater. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/17/asteroid-pushes-tectonic-plates/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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