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- 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]
- 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: 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
- A moment that changed Earth - NSF - National Science Foundation
Approximately 66 million years ago, an asteroid nearly 10 kilometers (6 2 miles) across hit the Earth near what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, close to the current towns of Chicxulub Pueblo and Chicxulub Puerto (after which the resulting crater is named)
- The Chicxulub crater: How the world nearly ended in Mexico
Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% of life on Earth
- The Chicxulub Crater - yucatantoday. com
Discover the Chicxulub crater in Yucatán, Mexico Explore the impact of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, its cenotes, and museums A fascinating geological history!
- The Chicxulub Crater, Mexico - Geology Science
The Chicxulub Crater was formed as a result of a catastrophic impact event that occurred approximately 66 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period The impacting body is believed to have been an asteroid or a comet with an estimated diameter of around 10 kilometers (about 6 miles)
- Dinosaur-killing asteroid was a rare rock from beyond Jupiter, new . . .
Scientists have uncovered the "genetic fingerprint" of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impactor, potentially revealing the fateful rock's origins in the outer reaches of our solar system
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