Discovered: New evidence of Asteroid impact in Antarctica
The findings indicate an impact much more hazardous that the Tunguska and Chelyabinsk events over Russia in 1908 and 2013
Thursday April 1, 2021 10:25 PM, IANS
London: A research team of international space scientists has found new evidence of an asteroid impact in Antarctica 430,000 years ago.
Extra-terrestrial particles recovered on the summit of Walnumfjellet (WN) within the Sor Rondane Mountains, Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica, indicate an unusual touchdown event where a jet of melted and vaporised meteoritic material resulting from the atmospheric entry of an asteroid at least 100 metres in size reached the surface at high velocity, said the study.