Crater found from asteroid that covered 10% of Earth's surface in debris. The crater sits beneath a plain of hardened lava that formed after the asteroid impact, which occurred nearly 800,000 years ago. By Leslie Nemo, Astronomy, Friday, January 3, 2020 https://astronomy.com/news/2020/01/crater-found-from-asteroid-that-covered-10-of-earths-surface-in-debris
The open access paper is: Sieh, K., Herrin, J., Jicha, B., Angel, D.S., Moore, J.D., Banerjee, P., Wiwegwin, W., Sihavong, V., Singer, B., Chualaowanich, T. and Charusiri, P., 2019. Australasian impact crater buried under the Bolaven volcanic field, Southern Laos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/12/24/1904368116.short Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
