Discovered the meteorite piece that opened the explosion nearly 500 million years ago

Scientists have discovered that a meteorite that falls on Earth could help them uncover the secrets of the explosion about 500 million years ago that transformed life on our planet.

According to the scientific journal LiveScience, Swedish researchers have found a piece of meteorite that according to them is the missing piece to explain the cause of the explosion that caused the transformation of life on our planet ago nearly 500 million years. This finding has just been published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

The asteroid mentioned above is found in the western part of Stockholm, Sweden. Of course, finding a meteorite is not a novelty because it was previously discovered that no fewer than 100 meteorite pieces fell on Earth through different periods. However, previous findings only found the usual L-chondrite rock from a meteor shower 470 million years ago when a small planet crashed into a larger planet.

According to scientists, the impact caused a meteor shower that killed many organisms on Earth and created a new biodiversity on our planet. But so far, details of that explosion are still a "mystery" to scientists because they have not found any meteorite that contains the first component from the small planet. That is why scientists said that this discovery is very important because they think this meteorite comes from the small planet in the old explosion.

David Harper, geologist at Durham University, one of the researchers, added: "The team may eventually have found the cause of the massive planetary disintegration in the 470 explosion. million years ago . ".

However, this finding still needs to be verified because some skeptical scientists are not sure if it belongs to the asteroid in the explosion. Timothy Swindle, a meteorite expert at the University of Arizona told LiveScience that it could be a new meteorite but the team's findings need to be verified before making a final conclusion. .

The meteorite currently has no official name and it is temporarily called " mysterious object" . The research team and many other scientists are continuing to research to see if this is the last piece to help uncover the secret of the explosion 470 million years ago that caused a complete transformation of life on Earth. ?