Two million-year long meteorite record found in Atacama Desert, Chile 25MAY2019

 Two million-year long meteorite record found in Atacama Desert, Chile

Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one

of the driest places, Geological Society of America

Sciencedaily, May 23, 2019

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190523130200.htm

Earth's Oldest Meteorite Collection Just Found

in the Driest Place on the Planet

By Brandon Specktor, May 24, 2019

https://www.livescience.com/65558-atacama-desert-has-meteors-for-days.html

The paper is:

A. Drouard, J. Gattacceca, A. Hutzler, P. Rochette, R.

Braucher, D. Bourl??s, ASTER Team, M. Gounelle, A.

Morbidelli, V. Debaille, M. Van Ginneken, M.

Valenzuela, Y. Quesnel, R. Martinez. The meteorite

flux of the past 2 m.y. recorded in the Atacama

Desert. Geology, May 22, 2019. Open Access

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/570818/the-meteorite-flux-of-the-past-2-m-y-recorded-in

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12644

Yours,

Paul H.