Man Finds Unusual Spherical Structure While Browsing Google Maps. It Could Be A Huge Discovery

IFL Science ^ | September 09, 2024 | James Felton

[Red Badger]

I’ve seen this movie.....Ping!.................

[Sicon]

[NorthMountain]

51 13 53.4N
64 41 11.33W

[Ge0ffrey]

The a-hole of creation?

[Openurmind]

Having done a lot of this, it is sometimes hard to tell if it is a hole or a bump. It can become an optical illusion and be either. You have to zoom closer and see which side the shadows are from the trees to really tell.

[NorthMountain]

There are several possible impact craters up there, including Pingaluit at

61 16 39.63N
73 39 47.06W

[Sirius Lee]

Totally an ancient impact.

[Repeal The 17th]

Not “spherical”...
Round?
Concave?

[GSWarrior]

Someone contact The Trek Planner.

[alancarp]

There’s a fairly significant hole there, 200-500 feet lower than the area within ~2 miles of that centerpoint. The ‘rim’ is highest to the NW, which could indicate the direction of an impact (SE to NW)... most asteroid hits would occur from an oblique angle).

[xp38]

That's no spherical structure!

[SteveH]

aliens... aliens if the bad kind...

[linMcHlp]

Not unusual.

[NorthMountain]

Obviously it’s Aliens. Giorgio said so.

But in the unlikely event that he’s wrong ...

I suggest a glacially eroded volcanic formation. The Canadian Shield is full of ancient formations.

Or I could be wrong and it could be an impact.

[Political Junkie Too]

That's why Google Earth is better. You can geta pseudo 3D view.

I'm looking at this now, centering on the coordinates above.

Meteor strikes that leave a large impact crater often had a trail of other pieces that left craters in a line in the direction of travel. If you look at this crater in Google Earth and then zoom out, it forms the center of other circular formations in a line from Prince Edward Island through this formation and into the Hudson Bay's Belcher Island formation. Is Belcher Island an impact upthrust?. Is Prince Edward Island an upthrust or collapsed crater rim?

Here is a zoomed out view of the region. Follow a line from west to east with the circle formation in this article in the middle.

-PJ

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Either way, kind of cool.

[null and void]

It Came From Outer Space

[BenLurkin]

"This formation, interpreted as a volcanoclastic diatreme formation named Marsal breccia, in an area devoid of post Grenvillian magmatism [...] is in fact more in agreement with a crater floor clast-poor melt rock, quite similar to the Mistastin and Janisjarvi cases,"

[SpaceBar]

The basement there looks pretty severely folded. It could just be an anticlinal structure that ‘looks’ like an astrobleme due to the way it has eroded out.