Discovered meteorite crater at French winery
According to Science Daily, recent studies inform that the marketing ‘gag’ of the Domaine du Météore winery is actually a real impact crater. The geologist and cosmochemist Frank Brenker from The Goethe University of Frankfurt confirms its truth. The depression in which the vineyards in the south of France is located is actually a meteorite crater. Literally, wine from the sky!
Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of the planet. It is assumed that meteorites brought with them a large part of its water. In the notable asteroid impacts that affected Earth, the extinction of the dinosaurs might had been triggered by the impact of a very large meteorite. Even the Younger Dryas Hypothesis contends that fragments of disintegrating extraterrestrial objects exploded over North America at 12.9 ka, initiating the Younger Dryas cold event for the extinction of many mega-fauna, and the demise of the Clovis archeological culture.
Despite the fact that celestial bodies regularly crash into Earth, traces of these events are difficult to find due to the fact that erosion erases every trace in a few hundreds and thousands of years. The “Earth Impact Database” lists just 190 such craters worldwide.
