An asteroid’s strike in the Atlantic Ocean resulted in the burying of the single largest crater of the US

Nearly 35M years back, an asteroid traveling at a speed of almost 231,000 kilometers per hour smashed into the Atlantic Ocean at a place which is today known as Cape Charles. Immediately there was vaporization of the space rock, however, the impact of the smash resulted into an immense tsunami which cast up a monsoon of molten glass and shattered rocks which extended over hundreds of miles and even carved out the Chesapeake Bay impact structure w....