A FORGOTTEN COSMIC IMPACT WAS HIDDEN IN A MUSEUM’S GLASS SHARDS

A FORGOTTEN COSMIC IMPACT WAS HIDDEN IN A MUSEUM’S GLASS SHARDS: Scientists thought that an Australian museum’s collection of tektites came from an 800,000-year-old asteroid strike on Earth. Some of them turned out to be much older. By Katherine Kornei Every few million years, give or take, a sizable asteroid slams into our planet. Researchers have now found evidence of such a cataclysm roughly 11 million