According to Live Science, a new study is revising the age of Earth's oldest known impact crater. Scientists had previously dated the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia at three point four seven billion years old. Fresh analysis now suggests that estimate was off by approximately half a billion years. Accurate dating of such ancient impacts helps scientists understand conditions on early Earth and the meteorite bombardment history that shaped our world.

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