Asteroid strikes ‘increase threefold over last 300m years’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2019
Planet and moon have been hit by more asteroids in the past 290m years than at any time in previous billion
Planet and moon have been hit by more asteroids in the past 290m years than at any time in previous billion
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