Oldest known asteroid impact on Earth dated to 3 billion years
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"Oldest known asteroid impact on Earth dated to 3 billion years" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 9 articles from 9 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include Universe Today, HotHardware, New Scientist and IFLScience. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Generated by PULSE's extractive engine from coverage metadata only — no AI-written claims. Updated 52d ago.
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Coverage (9)
- Crystalline Clocks Confirm Earth's Oldest Crater Universe Today · 54d ago
- Age Of Earth's Oldest Asteroid Strike Proven Wrong By Half A Billion Years HotHardware · 54d ago
- Huge crater in Australia may be the oldest impact structure on Earth New Scientist · 54d ago
- We've Finally Dated The World's Oldest Impact Crater, And It's An Incredible 3 Billion Years Old IFLScience · 56d ago
- 3 billion years old! This Australian crater is the oldest known asteroid impact site on Earth Space · 56d ago
- The Oldest Crater on Earth? Scientists Uncover a Lost Cosmic Collision Orbital Today · 56d ago
- Earth’s oldest asteroid impact struck 3 billion years ago Popular Science · 56d ago
- An asteroid hit deep in the Australian outback. What it left may have broken a record SBS Australia · 56d ago
- World's Oldest Known Asteroid Crater Is 3 Billion Years Old, Study Confirms ScienceAlert · 56d ago
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