🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: The crater sits beneath a plain of hardened lava formed after the meteorite's impact.
says that the meteorite likely struck in southern Laos, carving an 8-by-10.5-mile crater now covered by a lava flow.
The site eluded geochemists for decades, but Sieh decided to take a new approach and look at satellite imagery from parts of the world where the meteorite might have hit. In the Bolaven Plateau in southern Laos, he found an expanse of flat, shallow rock formed from hardened lava, just thick enough to obscure a crater of this size.
The rock's speed and force would have been enough to send pillow-sized boulders careening through the air at almost 1,500 feet per second. Sitting on the perimeter of the suspected impact site, these rocks are a telltale sign of a meteorite impact. “It would not have been a healthy thing to be on the receiving end of that,” Sieh says.
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