#giantmeteor

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

“I'm still quite blown away.” I love a story of an amateur enthusiast discovering something fabulous. #GiantMeteor #meteor https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/meteor-crater-quebec-discovery-390-million-years-old-9.7268583

CBC

He saw a pit on Google Maps. It turned out to be a 390-million-year-old meteor crater | CBC News

Joël Lapointe, stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region while he was wandering with his Google Maps cursor in 2024. But it turned out to be a 390-million-year-old meteor crater — never before identified, until now.

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