Corey S Powell on Nostr: Two unusual things happened on Earth around 460 million years ago: a bunch of ...

Two unusual things happened on Earth around 460 million years ago: a bunch of asteroid impacts near the equator & an intense global cold spell.

Possibly both were the result of an asteroid that broke up & gave our planet a pretty but deadly set of rings.

https://eos.org/articles/a-close-asteroid-encounter-may-have-once-given-earth-a-ring #space #science #nature