Pieces of an asteroid that blasted a 70-kilometer-wide crater in southern Africa millions of years ago have been found intact within the crater, a unique discovery that defies models of such collisions.
SPACE ROCK. Drilled sample contains a piece (arrow) of the asteroid that blasted the Morokweng crater in the Kalahari Desert 144 million years ago.
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