Massive crater under Greenland's ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans

The 31-kilometer-wide Hiawatha crater may have formed as recently as 12,800 years ago when a 1.5-kilometer asteroid struck Earth

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Meagan Cantwell
Sarah Crespi
Eric Hand
Catherine Matacic
Paul Voosen

citation
K. Kjær et al.
Science 2018
DOI: 10.1126/aciadv.aar8173

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