Giant Crater

  • News HeadlinesA giant crater under the Hiawatha Glacier formed much sooner than we thought

    A giant crater under the Hiawatha Glacier formed much sooner than we thought

    (ORDO NEWS) — A huge impact crater lurking deep under Greenland’s Hiawatha Glacier is likely the result of a kilometer-wide asteroid that crashed into Earth 58 million years ago. When Hiawatha Crater was first discovered in 2015, researchers suspected it was formed by a meteorite impact somewhere between 12,000 years and 3 million years ago. These dates roughly correspond to the last ice age, and judging by the state of…