The location of the crater created after the meteor impact was not detected for ... called microtektites that spread up to Antarctica. “We found tiny yellow glass spherules within glacial ...

That's not just a small discrepancy. It means the chances of finding an iron-based meteorite are almost 10 times lower in Antarctica than they are anywhere else. And iron-containing meteorites are ...

In 1981, for example, when Smithsonian researchers tried to cut through a large iron meteorite that had crash-landed in the Allen Hills of Antarctica ... formed Meteor Crater in Arizona.

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.