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What a 3.5 billion-year-old meteor crater tells us about the Earth

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The North Pole Dome Site is the oldest in the world and is found in Western Australia .

Experts think a major meteorite smacked into it 3.5billion years ago .

Experts looked at so-called shatter cones’, which were formed when the space rock hit the Earth at over 22,000 miles per hour .

The previous record find was less recent by over 1billion years compared to the Yarrabubba impact structure.

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