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Article: Highland meteor crash that changed the Earth; Massive impact: Scientists in Scotland have found evidence of a huge meteor shower which rained down on the Earth 470million years ago.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 23, 2008
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Byline: Gavin Madeley
MOST of us have heard of the Big Bang - although perhaps few of us can properly understand it.
It is the theory of how the universe began in a gigantic explosion about ten billion years ago.
Now, scientists say a Highland beach has yielded evidence of a 'second big bang' - about 500million years ago - which may have triggered a host of new life forms on Earth.
Experts from Aberdeen University have discovered tiny particles which originated in space embedded in rocks along the shore near Durness in Sutherland.
These are believed to date from a huge meteorite storm which may have caused powerful ...