Tag: tektites
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800,000 Years Ago, a Meteor Slammed Into Earth. Scientists Just Found the Crater
LiveScience has a story about a century long search to find a meteor crater. About 790,000 years ago, a meteor hit the Earth and spread tektites, shiny black lumps of rock, over about 10% of the surface of the planet. The tektites were found from Indonesia to eastern Antarctica and from the Indian Ocean to…
