- Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo (not the larger coastal town of Chicxulub Puerto) [3]
- New theory behind Chicxulub impactor that killed the dinosaurs
The Chicxulub impactor, as it’s known, was a plummeting asteroid or comet that left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and goes 12 miles deep Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end, scientists say, by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with the end of
- What Happened the Day a Giant, Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit the Earth
The immense Chicxulub crater is a remnant of one of the most consequential days in the history of life on Earth The asteroid strike triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass extinction
- Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs | New Scientist
At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a city collided with Earth The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres
- Chicxulub Impact Event - Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
The researchers called the crater Chicxulub, a Maya word that roughly translates as “tail of the devil ” The crater, now buried beneath a kilometer-thick sequence of sediments, has been imaged using geophysical techniques that allow us to visualize underground structures
- Chicxulub crater | Description, Features, Geology, Dinosaur Extinction . . .
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater located off the Yucatán Peninsula that formed through an asteroid impact about 66 million years ago The impact and resulting climate change is believed to have led to the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs
- What Happened At Chicxulub? The Asteroid Impact That Killed The . . .
Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby Chicxulub Pueblo After this unusually large impact crater was confirmed,
- Chicxulub Crater: Where the End of the Dinosaurs Began - HowStuffWorks
Scientists named this unseen landmark the Chicxulub crater, after Chicxulub, Mexico, a village close to its geographic center The offending space object that hit our planet tens of millions of years ago is called the Chicxulub impactor Most experts think the impactor was an asteroid
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