- About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth experienced an ice age that was caused by global cooling, triggered by extra dust in the atmosphere from a giant asteroid collision in outer space. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaax4184 4 comments science
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- Gigantic asteroid collision 470 million years ago caused Earth to freeze over, scientists say | The Independent | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/asteroid-collide-earth-space-ice-age-biodiversity-geoengineering-a9110271.html 51 comments
- Blowing-up asteroid to block out Sun could stop global warming - it's happened before, say scientists https://uk.yahoo.com/news/blowing-asteroid-block-sun-could-180000103.html 15 comments
- Dust cloud sparked explosion in primitive life on Earth, say scientists | Asteroids | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/18/dust-cloud-sparked-explosion-in-primitive-life-on-earth-say-scientists 12 comments
- Issue No. 50 | The Orbital Index http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-02-06-Issue-50/ 1 comment
- A Massive Asteroid Collision Once Caused Earth To Cool And Enter An Ice Age. Can We Replicate It? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2019/09/21/a-massive-asteroid-collision-once-caused-earth-to-cool-and-enter-an-ice-age-can-we-replicate-it/ 0 comments
- Issue No. 50 | The Orbital Index http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-02-06-Issue-50/?hn= 0 comments
- How to Cool a Planet With Extraterrestrial Dust - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/science/asteroid-ice-age-dust.html 0 comments