Thursday, April 1, 2021 — An international research team of planetary scientists, led by Dr Matthias van Ginneken of the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Kent, a former researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, has found new evidence for a meteorite airburst just above the Antarctic ice cap 430,000 years ago.
Extra-terrestrial particles, known as condensation spherules, were recovered during the 2017-2018 BELAM (Belgian Antarctic Meteorites) expedition funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office and organised from the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station in Antarctica. ...
Meteorite impact over Antarctica 430,000 years ago
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