Glassy debris points to relatively recent asteroid impact in southeast Asia0

• Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
• January 6, 2018

A kilometer-size asteroid slammed into Earth about 800,000 years ago with so much force that it scattered debris across a 10th of our planet’s surface. Yet its impact crater remains undiscovered. Now, glassy remains believed to have come from the strike suggest the asteroid hit southeast Asia as our close ancestors walked the Earth.