Space Daily July 12, 2026 • 12:00

An asteroid struck somewhere north of Australia 11 million years ago, scattering molten glass across a 900-kilometre ellipse in South Australia — yet scientists still cannot find the crater it left behind - Space Daily

An asteroid struck somewhere north of Australia 11 million years ago, scattering molten glass across a 900-kilometre ellipse in South Australia — yet scientists still cannot find the crater it left behind - Space Daily

The glass is small enough to sit in a museum drawer, but the event it points to was not small. A set of unusual Australian tektites, now called ananguites,

The glass is small enough to sit in a museum drawer, but the event it points to was not small. A set of unusual Australian tektites, now called ananguites, appears to record an asteroid impact about … [+7079 chars]

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