A Comet May Have Exploded Over Chile 12,000 Years Ago - TIME
WEBNov 3, 2021 · A new study provides evidence that Chile's Atacama Desert was hit by a cometary explosion 12,000 years ago.
An ancient exploding comet may have melted Chilean sand into …
WEBNov 17, 2021 · Scattered across a swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile lie twisted chunks of black and green glass. How the glass ended up there, sprinkled along a 75-kilometer-long corridor, has been a mystery.
An ancient fireball turned miles of this desert to glass | CNN
WEBNov 3, 2021 · CNN — The Atacama Desert in Chile has been used as a way to simulate alien environments, like Mars on Earth. Now, researchers believe it was the site of an ancient comet explosion intense...
Massive comet exploding over Chile 12,000 years ago may have …
WEBNov 4, 2021 · Scientists think that 12,000 years ago, one or more huge comets exploded together in the skies over what's now Chile, causing tornado-force winds, scorching a wet, grassy landscape, and...
Mysterious glass in the Atacama Desert may be from an ancient …
WEBNov 4, 2021 · Mysterious bits of twisted glass strewn across Chile's Atacama Desert may have originated from a large comet that exploded in Earth's atmosphere around 12,000 years ago, according to a new...
Glass slabs in Chile's Atacama Desert come from comet …
WEBNov 5, 2021 · An ancient fireball that blasted by a massive desert in Chile some 12,000 years ago created slabs of twisted glass that measure up to a foot and a half in length.
Ancient Meteorite May Have Created Large Patches of Glittering …
WEBNov 8, 2021 · Peppered across the Atacama Desert in Chile are mysterious shards of dark, gnarled glass. A total of 47-miles of the desert landscape is strewn with patches of dark silicate glass, and scientists...
Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert likely created by …
WEBNov 2, 2021 · New research finds that the dark silicate glass strewn across a vast swath of the Atacama Desert was created by an exploding comet around 12,000 years ago. Credit: P.H. Schultz, Brown University.
Comet’s intense heat turned sand to glass 12,000 years ago
WEBNov 5, 2021 · Around 12,000 years ago, something scorched a vast swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile with heat so intense that it turned the sandy soil into widespread slabs of silicate glass. Now,...
Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert likely created by …
WEBNov 2, 2021 · Around 12,000 years ago, something scorched a vast swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile with heat so intense that it turned the sandy soil into widespread slabs of silicate glass.