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The Australian astronomers who helped solve a 22 million-year-old mystery
For Curtin University astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix, helping prevent Armageddon is all in a day’s work.
Key points:
- In 2018, a 1.5-metre rock broke up in Earth’s atmosphere and plummeted into the Kalahari Desert
- Scientists didn’t know exactly where it came from
- Today, an international team that included Australians announced its origin
“I’m sure most people remember the movie Armageddon … If a really big asteroid came towards you, it really comes down to how much warning time we have,” he said.
Dr Devillepoix is part of a global team that announced today it had solved an asteroid “detective mystery”.
In June 2018, a 1.5-metre rock broke up in Earth’s atmosphere and plummeted into the Kalahari Desert in Botswana after being accidentally…
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