Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the size of the 6-mile-wide asteroid that eradicated the dinosaurs has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is evidence of the earliest known asteroid impact on Earth.
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(B) has been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus
(C) have been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus are
(D) have been dated as being 3.47 billion years
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OG 里有个类似的句子，楼主可以体会下：Fossils of the arm of a sloth, found in Puerto Rico in 1991, have been dated at 34 million years old, making the sloth the earliest known mammal on the Greater Antilles islands.作者: emmahiggins09 时间: 2017-4-14 11:37
eradicated 是用来比表示Asteroid 灭了恐龙这件事儿。这事儿发生在过去，那自然用的是过去式。