City-sized asteroids ‘regularly’ smashed Earth in its early years

Earth was pummeled by a bevy of massive asteroids for millions of years, new study finds.

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City-sized asteroids ‘regularly’ smashed Earth in its early years

Regular in space time = every 15 million years or so

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