[Rockhounds] Crater found from asteroid that covered 10% of Earth's surface in debris

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

A flash of light would have come first, followed by a shockwave and massive
earthquake. Only later would the hailstorm of black, glassy debris begun to
fall, a rocky rain that would touch ten percent of the planet's surface.

That's the scene that followed a massive asteroid impact 790,000 years ago.
The remains it scattered, called tektites, have been found from Asia to
Antarctica. For decades, scientists have searched for the elusive resting
place of the impactor that coated the Earth with debris. Now, they may have
finally found it.
A new report <https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/12/24/1904368116>
published
in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* says that the
meteorite likely struck in southern Laos, carving a 10.5 by eight mile
crater now covered by a lava flow.
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/01/crater-found-from-asteroid-that-covered-10-of-earths-surface-in-debris