Amateur astronomer 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.
He was simply trying to plan his camping vacation when he spotted something unexpected on his screen
— what researchers recently confirmed is a previously unidentified, 390-million-year-old meteor crater.
“It was quite an exciting discovery,” said Gordon Osinski, a planetary geology professor …
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