Volunteers are sorting through lake-bottom sediment, looking for “penny-sized” pieces of a 2017 meteorite. It might sound like a painstaking effort, but one astronomer told hereandnow that finding these remnants would “open up a new realm of discovery.”
to find bits and pieces of that meteorite about 200 feet deep. He’s leading the Aquarius Project, where volunteers — some of them student participants — sort through lake-bottom sediment for meteorite residue.It might sound like a painstaking effort. But considering three-quarters of the Earth is covered in water, Hammergren says, finding these “penny-sized” remnants would “open up a new realm of discovery.
“We figured things would be mapped out in great detail and we'd know what the bottom of the lake looked like, whether it was smooth sediments or rocky,” he says, “but it turns out that that was unknown, especially in this area.” After the magnetic sled returns to the surface from scraping the bottom of the lake, teams of volunteers shift through the sediment in hopes of discovering a tiny piece of meteorite.
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