Ancient Asteroid Boiled Oceans, Burned the Sky, and Shook Earth for Half Hour http://ift.tt/1iv5PLZ

These days we freak out whenever some dinky bollide explodes in the sky over Russia. But scientists have now reconstructed the effects of an enormous 3.26-billion-year-old asteroid impact on Earth that boiled the oceans, turned the sky red hot, and generated a half-hour-long earthquake that shook the planet. Though we have heard about ancient impacts […]

















via WIRED http://ift.tt/1krsTSN