My paper on microtektites from Larkman Nunatak, Antarctica, got top billing on Imperial College London website!  Microtektites are glassy microscopic impact spherules resulting from the melting of Earth’s crust during an hyper-velocity impact by an asteroid. Quite a violent phenomenon.…

Want to know more about my search for cosmic dust in Antarctica? Check this out:

Earlier this year, I was lucky to participate to the 2017-2018 BELAM (Belgian Antarctic Meteorites) expedition in the Sor Rondane Mountains, Antarctica. Over the course of two weeks, me and colleague Steven Goderis from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel sampled over…