RESTRICTED -- Ice Age Asteroid Crater Discovered Beneath Greenland Glacier

In a handout image, an artist’‘s depiction of a meteor headed toward northwest Greenland. Buried beneath a half mile of snow and ice in Greenland, scientists have uncovered an impact crater large enough to swallow the District of Columbia. The finding suggests that a giant iron asteroid smashed into what is today a glacier during the last ice age, an era known as the Pleistocene Epoch that started 2.6 million years ago. (Natural History Museum of Denmark/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via The New York Times) -- NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY ICELAND-CRATER-GLACIER BY NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR FOR NOV. 14, 2018. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. --