A meteorite might have acted as a ‘giant fertilizer bomb’ that helped early microorganisms to thrive. Plus, 5 million tonnes of diamond dust sprinkled in the skies each year could cool the ...
But Earth was young and a very different place when the S2 meteorite, estimated to have 50 to 200 times more mass than the dinosaur extinction-triggering Chicxulub asteroid, collided with the ...