With the aim of creating an appealing brand, the name of the ‘Domaine du Météore’ winery near the town of Béziers in Southern France points to a local peculiarity: one of its vineyards lies in a round, 200-metre-wide depression that resembles an impact crater. By means of rock and soil analyses, scientists led by cosmochemist Professor Frank Brenker from Goethe University Frankfurt have now established that the crater was indeed once formed by the impact of an iron-nickel meteorite. In doing so, they have disproved a scientific opinion almost 60 years old, because of which the crater…
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