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Study finds impact craters could have fostered early life

A Curtin University-funded study has revealed that even comparatively small meteorite impact craters might have played a key role in the origin and evolution of early life.
Curtin University researcher Dr Fred Jourdan co-authored the paper, which suggests heat generated by an asteroid impact takes at least several hundred thousand years to cool down, providing an ideal environment for microbial life to thrive. 
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Lappajärvi is a lake in Finland, in the municipalities of Lappajärvi, Alajärvi and Vimpeli. It is formed in a 23 km wide meteorite crater. The age of the crater is estimated to be 73.3 million years old (±5.3 million years) - the upper Cretaceous period.
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