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New Type of Tektite Reveals 11-Million-Year-Old Asteroid Impact in Australia


Tektites are nearly pure glasses (practically no crystalline inclusions) created when a space rock slams into Earth, melting surface material and hurling it hundreds or even thousands of km.

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