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five billion years ago, there's an impact on the moon. And it produced a lunar meteorite. So it eventually made its way to Earth. And this is roughly the same time life emerged on our planet. And the meteorite was found in Northwest Africa and was given a name, NWA 1259-3. And a specimen uniquely contains the information about three separate lunar impacts, but scientists focused on the earliest of the three. And this was reported in the journal Geology. And the fossil record shows evidence that life popped up about 3.5 billion years ago. And actually, when it popped up for the fossil means it was emerging and evolving before that. The question comes up. What was the impact record when life was emerging? Understand that may give research an idea how life took hold here on Earth. The radiometric dating of a meteorite show.