Kamargaon

Shocked Indian meteorites provide clues to Earth’s inaccessible lower mantle

Shocked Indian meteorites provide clues to Earth’s inaccessible lower mantle

The team of researchers from IIT Kharagpur along with its collaborators have completed a set of complex analyses of the shocked Indian Kamargaon meteorite, sucked by Earth’s Gravity. In a recent study, a team of researchers from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur analysed a shocked meteorite called Kamargaon, fell on November 13, 2015, near the town of Kamargaon, located 27 km away from the Golaghat district of Assam, India. The scientists classified it as a chrondite, a variety of stony meteorite. In this study, the detailed investigations were carried out by Prof. Sujoy Ghosh and his student, Kishan Tiwari from…
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