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He opened a camping map and found a 390-million-year wound

A folded map in a dark walnut room opens into a vast circular forested crater with a lake at its center. — Original Nogical illustration · Interpretive image, not satellite or field data

An amateur astronomer scouting online maps for a Quebec camping trip noticed a circular feature that field researchers later traced to a roughly 25-kilometre impact structure, probably about 390 million years old. Shatter cones make the impact origin compelling and the research team considers Uhackatik essentially confirmed; formal recognition by the Meteoritical Society is still pending.

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