A huge meteorite smashed into Earth nearly 800,000 years ago -- and we may have finally found the crater.
The crater may lie beneath lava in a 910 cubic kilometer area of the Bolaven plateau volcanic field in the southeast Asian nation of Laos, according a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. A meteorite is a an object from space that survives a trip through the atmosphere and falls on the Earth's surface.
These strewn fields are found on every continent except Antarctica, according to the Jackson School Museum of Earth History at the University of Texas at Austin. Ice fossils found in 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite reveal building blocks of our solar systemScientists have largely been able to determine the source crater for tektites, with the exception of one -- the Australasian field.
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