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Today is #Towelday
I just went through "42", a mix between biography and notes collection of Douglas Adams.
It's full of awesome small notes and lettes by Douglas. Highly recommended for any Douglas Adams fan!
Anyway, I just wanted to post these talk notes that Douglas had for a talk at the GSM conference in february 2001, not even 3 months before his death.
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Be,La,U-rich spherules as microtektites of terrestrial laterites: What goes up must come down
Steve Desch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05161 https://<…

Be,La,U-rich spherules as microtektites of terrestrial laterites: What goes up must come down
Recently Loeb et al. (2024, "Recovery and Classification of Spherules from the Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014 January 8 (IM1) Bolide", Res. Notes. Amer. Astron. Soc. 8, 39) reported the magnetic collection of millimeter-sized spherules from the seafloor near Papua New Guinea. About 22% had Mg/Si < 1/3 and were identified as a new "differentiated" variety of cosmic spherule ("D-type"). In a subset of 26 of these "D-type" spherules, 12 "BeLaU" spherules were found to be dominated by Fe and …