In the quiet act of planning a camping trip, a Quebec amateur astronomer stumbled upon something the Earth had hidden for 390 million years — a crater born before dinosaurs, now named Uhackatik in honor of the Indigenous people whose land holds its memory. Joël Lapointe's 2024 discovery on Google Earth, confirmed by scientists in a 2025 expedition, reminds us that the boundary between expert and curious observer has always been more porous than institutions suggest. Only about 200 impact craters have ever been identified on our geologically restless planet, and this one — the first ever confir