Experts have tried to locate the crater created by the recent major impact.
a new one Stady It says they were able to find the site of the last major asteroid impact IFLScience. The potential crater may be hidden in the jungle in southern Laos.
Much of the rocky material in Southeast Asia and Australia was formed when an asteroid collided with Earth 789,000 years ago. Glassy rocks known as tektites were widespread at that time, even reaching Madagascar and Antarctica.
With older and larger influences, more material was created, but most of it is now buried. Tektite fields in Australia and Asia are young enough to still be visible in many places.
For the rocks to spread so widely, the event would have had to be huge, but the crater has not yet been discovered. Experts now believe that the depression may be on the Bolaven Plateau in Laos.
Kerry SeahThe Nanyang Technological University fellow and his colleagues said unexploded artillery devices left over from wars have hampered field work for decades.
Already in 1983, experts discovered a pebble deposit not far from the Vietnamese tektite. Researchers believe that this layer fell from the sky after the collision.
Sieh and his team have now identified the likely location of the impact, starting with the sediment. The idea of a crater in the area has been raised before, but the evidence has been inconclusive.
The researchers collected evidence using five different data sets. The experts discovered, among other things, that although tektites of the appropriate age can be found thousands of kilometers away, they are present in the largest intact quantity in the region.
