A shattered asteroid may have bombarded Earth 800 million years ago
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About 800 million years ago, a massive collision in the asteroid belt shattered a large object, sending debris raining down on Earth, the Moon, and Mars. Scientists linked this event to the Eulalia asteroid family, whose parent body broke apart near a gravitational zone influenced by Jupiter. Earth likely absorbed roughly 20 times more impacts than the Moon, and the timing overlaps with major cooling and biological shifts on Earth.
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