Meteor strike encased life in glass

• Autores: Lisa Grossman
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2943, 2013, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Remnants of an ancient swamp have been found preserved inside glass created during a meteorite strike, offering the first direct evidence that traces of life can survive the heat and pressure of such an impact. The discovery adds weight to arguments that microbes traveling on space rocks could have seeded the planets. Now, evidence has been found around the 800,000-year-old Darwin crater in Tasmania, Australia, by Kieren Torres Howard, who was conducting research into the distribution and composition of the crater's impact glass at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.