About 3.26 billion years ago, the S2 meteorite struck our planet, and impacts of this nature are typically regarded as catastrophic for life.
However, scholars speculate that certain life forms may have bloomed as a result of the conditions created by the space rock’s impact, which had a diameter of 37–58 kilometers.
Nadja Drabon, an early-Earth geologist and associate professor in the Earth and planetary sciences department at the University of Harvard in the United States, stated, “We think of impact events as disastrous for life.”
However, this study shows that these effects would have improved life, particularly in the early stages.
Up to 200 times larger than the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs, S2 is thought to have existed.
According to analysis, it caused a tsunami that churned up the ocean and carried debris from the land onto coastal communities. This analysis was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publication.
According to experts, the impact’s heat caused the top layer of the ocean to boil off and heated the sky, while a dense dust cloud covered everything.
