Researchers Find Evidence of a Mysterious Giant Asteroid Impact, but They Don’t Know Where Its Crater Is Special shards of glass, known as “tektites,” were hiding in plain sight in a museum collection Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, September 26, 2025 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-find-evidence-of-a-mysterious-giant-asteroid-impact-but-they-dont-know-where-its-crater-is-180987415/
Ancient Australian tektites reveal new evidence of a giant asteroid impact A new study re-evaluating Australian tektites uncovers a previously unrecognized cosmic collision that occurred 11 million years ago. By Brooks Mendenhall, Astronomy, September 26, 2025 https://www.astronomy.com/science/ancient-australian-tektites-reveal-new-evidence-of-a-giant-asteroid-impact/ The paper is: Musolino, A., Rochette, P., Barrat, J.A., Jourdan, F., Reynard, B., Devouard, B., Andrieu, V., Gattacceca, J. and Vidal, V., 2025. A new tektite strewn field in Australia ejected from a volcanic arc impact crater 11 Myr ago. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 670, no.119600. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X2500398X https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395103938_A_new_tektite_strewn_field_in_Australia_ejected_from_a_volcanic_arc_impact_crater_11_Myr_ago Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
