A huge meteorite gouged a Greenland crater 58 million years ago, study finds
New research found the crater was far older than the 13,000 years previously estimated.
March 10, 2022
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WASHINGTON — An immense crater in northwestern Greenland, buried under a thick sheet of ice and first spotted in 2015, is much older than previously suspected — formed by a meteorite impact 58 million years ago, rather than 13,000 years ago as had been proposed.
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