The Comet That Exploded Over Atacama Desert 12,000 Years Ago

Scott Harris, researcher at Fernbank Science Center, shares how the exploded comet helped form glass found near Pica, Chile.

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There has never before been clear evidence that intense thermal radiation and winds from an exploding comet created glasses here on Earth. Though some of the pieces of greenish-black Pleistocene-era glass found in the area are in the form of thin slabs, many look twisted and warped, and some melts ended up forever entangled with others. That means there was enough heat for them to be reshaped again and again before it finally died down, though some still have blobs of sand and other materials that never melted. This glass was tortured.

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