A large meteoritic event over Antarctica ca. 430 ka ago inferred from chondritic spherules from the Sør Rondane Mountains

• Published in: Science Advances
• Main Authors: Van Ginneken, M., Goderis, S., Artemieva, N., Debaille, V., Decrée, S., Harvey, R. P., Huwig, K. A., Hecht, L., Yang, S., Kaufmann, F. E. D., Soens, B., Humayun, M., Van Maldeghem, F., Genge, M. J., Claeys, P.
• Other Authors: National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European Research Council, Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS, Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, FNRS/FWO, VUB Strategic program
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021
• Subjects: Sør Rondane Mountains; Sør-Rondane; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc1008; https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abc1008; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.abc1008

Dust from Antarctica reveals a new type of meteoritic event that vaporized the surface of the ice sheet ~430 ka ago.