05 December 2009

Canada Meteorite News- Sudbury Impact Makes Waves 5DEC09

Life began with a bang in Sudbury, 1.8 billion years ago: scientists
The Gazette (Montreal)
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service December 4, 2009 4:03 PM Locator map showing the site of a meteorite hit near Sudbury about 1.85 billion years ago ...

Did life begin in Sudbury?
Canada.com Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:27 PM PST
The mountain-sized meteorite that struck Sudbury nearly two billion years ago already known to have made the northern Ontario city a global mining mecca may have also triggered changes in Earth's ocean chemistry that allowed complex life to begin evolving on the planet, two U.S. government scientists have theorized. ...

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