A colossal asteroid once boiled the oceans. It also did the unexpected.

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Chaos once reigned on Earth.

Earth had a violent past.

Huge asteroids or chunks of ancient objects once pummeled planets in the unsettled solar system, and scientists previously found evidence that a particularly monstrous object struck our planet some 3.26 billion years ago.

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