{"id":121009,"date":"2021-03-29T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/oops-the-worlds-oldest-meteorite-impact-crater-isnt-an-impact-crater-after-all"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:51:03","slug":"oops-the-worlds-oldest-meteorite-impact-crater-isnt-an-impact-crater-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/oops-the-worlds-oldest-meteorite-impact-crater-isnt-an-impact-crater-after-all","title":{"rendered":"Oops! The \u201cWorld\u2019s Oldest Meteorite Impact Crater\u201d Isn\u2019t an Impact Crater After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oops-the-worlds-oldest-meteorite-impact-crater-isnt-an-impact-crater-after-all2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it\u2019s actually the result of normal geological processes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During fieldwork at the Archean Maniitsoq structure in Greenland, an international team of scientists led by the University of Waterloo \u2019s Chris Yakymchuk found the features of this region are inconsistent with an impact crater. In 2012, a different team identified it as the remnant of a three-billion-year-old meteorite crater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZircon crystals in the rock are like little time capsules,\u201d said Yakymchuk, a professor in Waterloo\u2019s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. \u201cThey preserve ancient damage caused by shockwaves you get from a meteorite impact. We found no such damage in them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it\u2019s actually the result of normal geological processes. During fieldwork at the Archean Maniitsoq structure in Greenland, an international team of scientists led by the University of Waterloo \u2019s Chris Yakymchuk found the features of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}