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University of Birmingham: Scientists Find Proof That an Asteroid Hit the North Sea Over 43 Million Years Ago
September 26, 2025
BIRMINGHAM, England, Sept. 26 (TNSjou) -- The University of Birmingham issued the following news:

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Scientists find proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea over 43 million years ago

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A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved thanks to a new study.

New evidence published in Nature Communications confirms that the crater around 80 miles off the coast of . . .

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