Professor Chris Kirkland - Curtin School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (VIDEO)

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Curtin University scientists have discovered Earth's oldest asteroid strike occurred at Yarrabubba, in outback Western Australia, and coincided with the end of a global deep freeze known as a Snowball Earth.

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