Yale joins the ‘Snowball’ fight over global deep freeze periods
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A new study makes the case for asteroid strikes setting in motion global glaciation in the distant past.
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Original Title: According to a new study, so-called “Snowball” Earth periods, in which the planet’s surface was covered in ice for thousands or even millions of years, could have been triggered abruptly by large asteroids that slammed into the Earth.