Meteorites Brought Gold to Earth

You can thank meteorites for most of the gold in Earth’s crust, reports the BBC . In fact, 22 billion billion tons of asteroid material that showered our planet 3.9 billion years ago were responsible for the gold, platinum, and other precious metals there (and, by extrapolation, for Glenn Beck’s…

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Meteorites Brought Gold to Earth

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