New date of 58 million years undercuts idea that strike triggered recent 1000-year plunge in temperatures

In 2018, an international team of scientists announced a startling discovery: Buried beneath the thick ice of the Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland is an impact crater 31 kilometers wide—not as big as the crater from the dinosaur-killing impact 66 million years ago, but perhaps still big enough to mess with the climate. Scientists were especially excited by hints in the crater and the surrounding ice that the Hiawatha strike was recent—perhaps within the past 100,000 years, when humans might have been around to witness it.

But now, using dates gleaned from tiny mineral crystals in rocks shocked by the impact, the same team says the strike is much, much older.

[www.science.org]

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