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Black iceberg spotted off Labrador could be result of an asteroid strike
nationalpost.com ^ | June 18, 2025 | Chris Knight

Posted on 06/19/2025 9:19:37 AM PDT by Red Badger

Hallur Antoniussen took this picture in May with the caption: "Not everyday you see a black iceberg." Photo by Hallur Antoniussen /Facebook Article content A rare black iceberg photographed off the coast of Labrador has been making the rounds of social media on this planet, but its unusual colour could be the result of it carrying material from another world.

Article content The picture first surfaced last month after a fish harvester from Carbonear, N.L., took a photo of it while fishing for shrimp last month.

Article content Article content Hallur Antoniussen, 64, was working aboard the Saputi, a factory freezer trawler operated by the Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries Corporation, off the coast of Labrador in mid-May, when he spotted the black berg.

“I have seen icebergs that are rolled, what they say have rolled in the beach with some rocks in it,” he told CBC Radio’s Labrador Morning show. “This one here is completely different. It’s not only that he is all black. He is almost … in a diamond shape.”

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TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Outdoors; Science; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astronomy; bolide; catastrophism; impact; labrador; meteorite; meteorites; science

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To: Hyman Roth

Pretty sure there was a lot of localized global warming all around that asteroid as it fell through the atmosphere.


41 posted on 06/19/2025 1:53:43 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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