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According to scientists, the meteorite, described as a fireball approximately 1.8 kilometers wide, could have ignited wildfires and generated massive shockwaves that affected the region inhabited by the Indus Valley civilization. Gordon Osinski, a researcher at Western University in Canada, noted that the potential consequences of such an impact would have been cataclysmic, comparable to a nuclear explosion, but without the accompanying radioactive fallout.