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Artist's impression of the asteroid slamming into tropical, shallow seas of the sulfur-rich Yucatán Peninsula in what is today Southeast Mexico. [13] The aftermath of the asteroid collision, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago, is believed to have caused the mass extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and many other species on Earth. [13]
The center of the Chicxulub Impact Crater (approx 21°20'N 89°30'W) is off the Yucatan coast, near Chicxulub Puerto. Chicxulub Puerto (IPA: [tʃikʃuˈlub] ⓘ) is a small coastal town in Progreso Municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán.
Less than ten thousand years old, and with a diameter of 100 m (330 ft) or more. The EID lists fewer than ten such craters, and the largest in the last 100,000 years (100 ka) is the 4.5 km (2.8 mi) Rio Cuarto crater in Argentina. [2]
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...
Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern day Mexico. The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping ...
The asteroid that killed most dinosaurs 66 million years ago left behind traces of its own origin.. Researchers think they know where the Chicxulub impactor came from based on levels of ruthenium ...
Chicxulub Pueblo (Mayan pronunciation: [tʃʼikʃuluɓ] Ch’ik Xulub) is a town, and surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.. At the census of 2010, the town had a population of 4,080 people.
World map in equirectangular projection of the impact structures on the Earth Impact ... Yucatan: 170 64.98 ± 0.05 ... Name Location Diameter (km) Age (Ma/millions ...