- Researchers find the first clear evidence for a cometary body (or bodies) exploding at a low altitude. Twisted and folded silicate glasses concentrated in certain areas across the Atacama Desert indicate nearly simultaneous intense airbursts close to Earth’s surface near the end of the Pleistocene. https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-11-02/comet 25 comments science
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