• DOI:10.1038/nature04751
Corpus ID: 4373614

Discovery of a 25-cm asteroid clast in the giant Morokweng impact crater, South Africa

@article{Maier2006DiscoveryOA,
  title={Discovery of a 25-cm asteroid clast in the giant Morokweng impact crater, South Africa},
  author={W. Maier and M. Andreoli and I. McDonald and Michael Denis Higgins and A. Boyce and A. Shukolyukov and G. W. Lugmair and L. D. Ashwal and P. Gr{\"a}ser and E. Ripley and R. J. Hart},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2006},
  volume={441},
  pages={203-206}
}

• W. Maier, M. Andreoli, +8 authors R. J. Hart
• Published 2006
• Geology, Medicine
• Nature

Meteorites provide a sample of Solar System bodies and so constrain the types of objects that have collided with Earth over time. Meteorites analysed to date, however, are unlikely to be representative of the entire population and it is also possible that changes in their nature have occurred with time. Large objects are widely believed to be completely melted or vaporized during high-angle impact with the Earth. Consequently, identification of large impactors relies on indirect chemical… Expand

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