Computer simulation suggests early Earth bombarded by asteroids and comets
Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
A team of researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado has created a computer simulation that depicts the first 500 million years of Earth's existence, taking into account collisions with asteroids and comets. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers describe how they built their simulation using crater data from the moon and other planets, and what it likely meant for early Earth.
