Australian ‘bush glass’ bears the fingerprints of a cosmic collision with an iron meteorite
- Written by Aaron J. Cavosie, Senior research fellow, Curtin University
How Earth and the other planets of the solar system formed and evolved over the aeons is a hot question for planetary scientists like me. One of the best ways to find out is by looking at rocks from space.
Getting the rocks is the hard part. Sending spacecraft to asteroids or other planets to gather samples and bring them home is possible, but...