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23:57, 8 Jul 2021
EARLY Earth was bombarded by a series of city-sized asteroids like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs , according to a new study.
Scientists know that our planet was struck by huge objects not long after its formation, but a new analysis suggest that the number of such impacts may have been ten times higher than previously thought.
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They say that translates into a barrage of collisions, similar in scale to that of the asteroid strike which wiped out the dinosaurs.