Did a Pacific Ocean meteor trigger the Ice Age?

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 06:03 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org)—When a huge meteor collided with Earth about 2.5 million years ago in the southern Pacific Ocean it not only likely generated a massive tsunami but also may have plunged the world into the Ice Ages, a new study suggests.

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