In 2024, a Google Maps user found a giant meteorite crater scientists had missed
Amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe has unveiled a massive impact crater in Quebec known as the Uhackatik structure, formed by a meteorite 390 million years ago. Geologists have validated this discovery through the identification of shatter cones and melted rock, ensuring the event's authenticity. This find stands as one of the most significant meteorite craters discovered in recent history, with…
In 2024, a Canadian amateur astronomer conducting normal Google Maps research for a hiking trip stumbled upon something extraordinary. Somewhere north of Magpie in Quebec's Côte-Nord region, near Lake Marsal, Lapointe noticed a near-perfect circular scar pressed into the forest, approximately 25km across. Intrigued, he initially dismissed the discovery as a duplication of existing data and submitted a report to Impact Earth, a crowdsourced crater registry managed by Western University, Ontario. Two years later, the enigmatic structure was officially named Uhackatik.
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