Shock with meteorites stabbed the Earth as strong as 70,000 nuclear bombs

A giant crater bigger than Paris caused by meteors has been discovered by scientists.

A giant iron meteorite plunged into Greenland about 12,000 years ago, leaving a crater bigger than Paris, according to scientists. The crater has just been discovered underneath the ice, using sophisticated radar systems.

The 31km-wide crater has just been discovered in Greenland.(illustration).

This is the first meteorite crater found in Greenland - and also the first crater beneath the ice on Earth. It is also among the 25 largest craters known on the planet, according to Science Advances magazine.

Scientists estimate that meteorites can be composed mostly of iron, about 1.5 km in diameter.

Scientists suspect a giant iron meteorite plunged into Greenland about 12,000 years ago.(illustration).

The impact from meteorites creating 31km wide craters can have a major impact in the region, maybe even globally, the researchers said.

If true, meteorites could have caused widespread forest fire in North America, tsunamis and black smoke covering the globe.

If this hypothesis is confirmed, this collision may have important implications for the story of humanity.

The impact of meteorites this size can be equal to the power of 70,000 nuclear bombs.(illustration).

Specifically, if this hypothesis is correct, it could prove 'the Younger Dryas' hypothesis is true.

According to the 'Younger Dryas hypothesis' , a major impact in North America about 11,000 to 13,000 years ago in the Ice Age finally caused wildfires across the Americas and Europe, as well as disturbing the weather in North Atlantic.

This led to the extinction of many giant mammals, such as mammoths and mastodons - and possibly later, the first ancestors of human species settled in the Americas.