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- Amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe flagged a 15.5-mile circular indentation on Google Maps, prompting researchers to confirm a 390-million-year-old impact crater in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region.
- Planetary geologist Gordon Osinski co-led an October 2025 expedition that documented shatter cones, impact-melt rock and dated the structure to roughly 390 million years.
- The crater was named Uhackatik after the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit and will be presented in Germany in August 2026, noting that only about 200 impact craters are known worldwide.
