Case file · Cosmic event

Maniitsoq 'impact structure' claim

In 2012, geologists proposed that a 100 km zone of deformed rock near Maniitsoq, west Greenland, was the eroded scar of a giant meteorite impact three billion years old.

2012 CE · 65.25, -51.90 · status: disputed

The sceptical view

Other researchers found no shocked minerals or other diagnostic impact evidence, and most now reject the claim.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Maniitsoq structure
Open it in the living atlas