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Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago
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Asteroid shower rained space rocks on Earth and the moon 800 million years ago By Charles Q. Choi, SpaceCom, July 21, 2020 Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago revealed by lunar craters by Osaka University, PhysOrg, July 21, 2020 The open access paper is: Terada, K., Morota, T. & Kato, M. Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system immediately before the Cryogenian period revealed by KAGUYA. Nature Communications (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17115-6 Yours, Paul H.-
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Fossils Reveal How Much Shorter Days Were 70 Million Years Ago
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Ancient Shell Has Revealed Exactly How Much Shorter Days Were 70 Million Years Ago https://www.sciencealert.com/old-shell-reveals-earth-s-days-were-half-an-hour-shorter-70-million-years-ago de Winter, N.J., Goderis, S., Van Malderen, S.J., Sinnesael, M., Vansteenberge, S., Snoeck, C., Belza, J., Vanhaecke, F. and Claeys, P., Sub‐daily scale chemical variability in a Torreites sanchezi rudist shell: Implications for rudist paleobiology and the Cretaceous day‐night cycle. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, p.e2019PA003723 https://agupu- 1 reply
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Earth's oldest rock was found by Apollo 14 astronauts -- on the moon. Ashley Strickland, CNN, January 24, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/world/earth-oldest-rock-moon/index.html We May Have Found Earth's Oldest Known Rock. It Was on The Moon. Michelle Starr, January 25, 2019 https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-oldest-rock-may-have-been-found-it-was-um-on-the-moon The paper is: J.J. Bellucci, A.A. Nemchin, M. Grange, K.L. Robinson, G. Collinse, M.J. Whitehouse, J.F. Snape, M.D.Norman D.A.Krin Terrestrial-like zircon in a cla
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This piece was excavated out of a block of matrix deposited in the Chesapeake Bay by a landslide. The shell was partially exposed in the water. The dark side was still in the matrix while the light side was exposed to the water. The pock marks on the light side are from modern barnacles which I removed during preparation. L. heros is a species with variation in shape. It may have a taller or flatter spire and the overall shape may be more or less globular. This specimen was donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
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Lunatia heros is a predatory snail that drilled holes in other mollusks' shells to eat the contents. One often finds hole that they left behind in the surrounding fossil shells. The shells of L. heros are variable, having more or less extended spirals, more or less globoular shape, etc. This specimen was donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
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I need help friends. A buddy of mine posted a pic of this on FB asking for help identifying it, no one could help. I loved it so I offered to buy it (which I did). This is all the information he could give me. My buddy's uncle died and left him a metal briefcase full of mostly old coins and a few other valuables. He lived in eastern Massachusetts. Items included really old papers, antique watches, coins as far back as the late 1800's and that thing. One interesting item was a fuel ration card from WWII... The intriguing part to me is how defined it is - it must be man made, right? Its