Open post mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · 3mo ago “I'm still quite blown away.” I love a story of an amateur enthusiast discovering something fabulous. #GiantMeteor #meteor cbc.ca 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.
