1/2: #Bestof2021: Suppose a comet exploded on Planet Earth: #HotelMars: 1/2: The glass-strewn Atacama Desert twelve millennia after a comet bolide. Peter Schultz, @BrownUniversity, @BrownAlumniMag. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
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1/2: #Bestof2021: Suppose a comet exploded on Planet Earth: #HotelMars: 1/2: The glass-strewn Atacama Desert twelve millennia after a comet bolide. Peter Schultz, @BrownUniversity, @BrownAlumniMag. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted November 16,, 2021)
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/comet-exploded-over-atacama-desert-revealed-by-glass
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/50/2/205/609354/Widespread-glasses-generated-by-cometary-fireballs
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| 1:01.4 | This is CBS, I'm John Baxter. Hope to tell Mars, episode N, David Livingston, Dr. Space |
| 1:10.6 | of the Space Show is here. And we're traveling 12,000 years before present to Chile, to the |
| 1:17.8 | high desert of Chile, called the Afacomite Desert. And our guide is Professor Peter Schultz, |
| 1:24.0 | speech-shultz, Professor Emeritus, Brown University's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary |
| 1:29.6 | Sciences. The professor assures me there is very like the good likelihood that human beings |
| 1:35.9 | have settled in this area 12,000 years before right now, along with other megafauna. And |
| 1:41.9 | then one day, Professor, a very good evening to you. Your presentation is as exciting as |
| 1:48.5 | the passing of the dinosaurs. What is it that you're presenting in geology magazine that |
| 1:54.6 | is very likely to have been an event that left very few signs except yours 12,000 years |
| 2:02.0 | ago and this moment in Chile, good evening to you, Professor. |
| 2:05.9 | Good evening. Nice to be here. And the event, can you describe that moment, Professor, |
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