Chunks of rock from the chalk marl pit in Hannover. (IMAGE)

University of Göttingen

Chunks of rock from the chalk marl pit in Hannover.

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Chunks of rock from the chalk marl pit in Hannover. Researchers collected around 100 kilograms of sedimentary rock and searched for fossilized micrometeorites. They found an average of one micrometeorite per kilogram of rock.

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Fabian Zahnow

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