By Rich Bowden: An Australian-based researcher has made history by using ancient Aboriginal Dreamtime legends to locate a meteorite crater in the Northern Territory. US scientist Duane Hamacher arrived in Australia having researched astrophysics but has been pursuing his PhD at the university for the last year studying Aboriginal astronomy within the Macquarie University‘s...
By Rich Bowden. First printed in The Tech Herald 30/7/09. Img left: CSIRO headquarters, Canberra, ACT. Credit: CSIRO Img right:Outcrop of komatiite lava, South Africa. Credit: CSIRO An Australian study has concluded that a “late veneer” of the Earth’s platinum came from extraterrestrial sources. Scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)...
