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King Tut's Necklace Gem Is Actually Natural Glass From Meteorite Impact

Submitted by Khalid on Tue, 2006/07/25 - 19:54

The BBC has an article on how a gem in one of King Tut's necklaces is actually made of
natural glass that formed from a meteorite that exploded over the Western Desert.

Here is an article on Space.com on the crater, called El Kebira ( الكبيرة "The Big" in Arabic), and here is a satellite photo.

I was able to locate the crater on Google, marked on Wikimapia. This straddles the border of Egypt and Libya.

And here is a Slashdot discussion on this crater, meteorite and glass.

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Wikimapia

Submitted by Ahmad Gharbeia (not verified) on Thu, 2006/07/27 - 13:32.

I had just posted about this to a mailing group.

As for Wikimapia, I edited the post a little.

Then I tried to resize the box to encompass the whole area of the crater, but all it did was queue a request for resizing. what will happen next; regarding the resizing?

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