Mystery AtlasElsebeth Thomsen
Danish researcher at the University of Copenhagen who proposed in a 1980 Meteoritics paper that the Black Stone could be a fragment of impact glass from the Wabar meteorite event in the Rub' al Khali desert.
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Elsebeth Thomsen authored Wabar Impact-Glass Hypothesis — Published as 'New Light on the Origin of the Holy Black Stone of the Ka'ba' in Meteoritics, March 1980.
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Elsebeth Thomsen investigated Wabar Craters — Thomsen analysed reports of Wabar's impact glass as a candidate source for the Black Stone in her 1980 paper.