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University of Copenhagen: Giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after dinosaurs went extinct

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Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide asteroid crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the asteroid impacted after the appearance of humans and opens up a new understanding of Earth’s evolution in the post-dinosaur era. Ever since 2015, when researchers at […]