A possible impact crater discovered in India may have been caused by the largest meteorite to strike Earth in the past 50,000 years.
The meteorite could have caused a fireball, a massive shock wave and wildfires that would have spread through an area inhabited by people from the Indus valley civilisation thousands of years ago.
“It would have been definitely equivalent to a nuclear bomb, but without the radioactive fallout,” says Gordon Osinski at…