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Australian 'bush glass' bears the fingerprints of a cosmic collision with an iron meteorite
That said, meteorites do leave fascinating traces. In a new study, my colleagues and I analyzed lumps of glass found around a 5,000-year-old meteorite impact site in the Northern Territory and ...
Could a meteorite hit you? How often they fall to Earth, according to experts
The resulting shockwave shattered people's windows as far as 75 miles away and caused over 1,600 injuries, mostly due to broken glass. The meteorite that hit the ground didn't hit any person or ...