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Sunday 5 January 2020

New location proposed for Australasian strewnfield crater 05JAN2020

New location proposed for Australasian strewnfield crater

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

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