William sent in the link a few days ago. See https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/at-900-meters-across-earth-s-largest-modern-impact-crater-has-just-been-found-by-scientists/ar-AA1QnQX5 … The crater is around 900 metres across – a big slap into the ground. It is said to date somewhere between 11,700 years ago and mid-Holocene = around 6000 years ago. These pan out at 9,700BC [the end of the Younger Dryas episode and the beginning of the Holocene], and 4000BC. It includes a series of events within it – such as the 6200BC anomaly. That led to widespread migration around the world. Even in South America. One may guess, if one might think so, that if the Holocene had witnessed big actual impacts such as this, and then how many atmospheric exploding smaller meteors might have occurred.
The crater is located in the hilly forests of southern China and has been named as the Jinlin crater. It has a depth of 90 metres and is much bigger than Macha crater in Russia, which comes out at 300 m across. This was also dated to the Holocene. Its origin as a high energy impact is confirmed by the presence of quartz grains with planar deformation. These are generated by shock waves. At the moment it is not clear if the meteor involved was iron, or a stony one. More investigation will continue. Ming Chen, a name to remember as he will no doubt pop up in the future, and out of reach of western scientists committed to toning down the threat from space. Ming Chen is quoted as saying, this discovery shows the scale of impacts of smaller extraterrestrial objects on the Earth in the Holocene is far greater than previously recorded. One might hazard to add, previously admitted. Is it enough to breach the mainstream mantra that such events are unusual and extremely rare? Hopefully, the Chinese will now be looking out for more evidence of space rocks crashing into Earth, instread of sticking to an out of date paradigm as we in the west. It is somewhat remininscent of the Clovis First argument a few years ago. It only came crashing down when accumulating evidence piled up – after a lot of evidence had been ignored or debunked.
The same story is at https://phys.org/news/2025-11-earth-largest-modern-crater-southern.html … where it is revealed it was published in a rather obscure jounral, but no doubt one that was sympathetic and attuned to the findings … Matter and Radiation at Extremes. Where were the big journals? Had they been frightened off by the resistance to the Tall el-Hammam event by mainstream? See https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0301625 … for the full article.
See also https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251114041210.htm … and https://www.earth.com/news/massive-jinlin-meteor-crater-in-china-rewrites-earths-impact-history/ … where we are told iron meteorites arrive as dense, coherent blocks that dig deeper and leave geophysical traces. Stony meteors, on the other hand, usually break apart and disperse their energy differently. Future feedbank will include magnetic surveys, geochemical assays, and a search for shocked melt or tiny spherules that would provide forensic detail. The dating of the crater to the early Holocene relied on local erosion measurements and geomorphic context. In other words, researchers looked at how fast the landscape around the crater wears down and how the structure fits within that evolving geological terrain. That approach, paired with the crater’s exceptional state as far as erosion is concerned, narrows its age more tightly than many other small young craters around the world. The early Holocene had witnessed deglaciation, changing sea levels, and major shifts in climate. Jinlin adds another dimension. A high energy event. From here onwards the research will spread in two directions – and the Chinese have an awful lot of scientists to do this. One is forensic in order to confirm the impactor’s composition, mapping the subsurface structure and hunting for melt lenses or ejecta. Secondly, looking at statistical and global evidence, and comparing Jinlin to other Holocene candidates. It requires re-evaluating preservation biases in humid, high relief, settings. The discovery reminds us that Earth’s recent past includes more impacts than the official record shows. It also highlights that some of the best archives of planetary history are the scars the planet stubbornly refuses to heal.