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.