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Nela Heidner

Up to 1km-thick ice: Swiss meteorite offers new insight into the Ice Age

In the canton of Bern, above Lake Biel on Twannberg and Mont Sujet, lies one of Europe’s most important meteorite strewn fields. Fragments of an extraordinary celestial body have been discovered there time and again for decades.

The number of known finds has now risen to more than 2,200. This means the scale of the meteorite discovery is significantly greater than initially assumed.

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