Ancient Meteorite Impact Rained Debris On US East Coast

A meteorite may have hit the surface of the Earth about 56 million years ago, raining debris for hundreds of miles across the Atlantic Ocean and what is now the East Coast of the U.S. Evidence of the impact appeared in the form of tiny, roughly spherical bits of glass that were found buried in ancient layers of soil in New Jersey and off the coast of Florida. The pellets were found in four separate locations, some of them separated by more than to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles), but they