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    Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia

    • It was formed slightly over 66 million years ago when an asteroid, about ten kilometers (six miles) in diameter, struck Earth. The crater is estimated to be 200 kilometers (120 miles) in diameter and 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) in depth. See more

    Overview

    The Chicxulub crater ( pronunciation: [t͡ʃikʃuˈlub] cheek-shoo-LOOB) 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 … See more

    Discovery

    In the late 1970s, geologist Walter Alvarez and his father, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Luis Walter Alvarez, put forth their theory that the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction was caused by an impact event. The main evidence o… See more

    Did an Asteroid Impact at the Chicxulub Crater Kill Off the Dinosa…
    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 a…
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  1. The Chicxulub event – the giant impact that ended the reign of non-avian dinosaurs, clearing the way for mammalian life to rise – was triggered by an asteroid from a region of the Solar System out past the orbit of Jupiter, the cold, dark outer limits, far from the Sun's light and warmth.
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    The Chicxulub event – the giant impact that ended the reign of non-avian dinosaurs, clearing the way for mammalian life to rise – was triggered by an asteroid from a region of the Solar System out past the orbit of Jupiter, the cold, dark outer limits, far from the Sun's light and warmth.

    We Finally Know Where The Asteroid Tha…

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    The huge Chicxulub asteroid impact, off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is generally accepted as the primary cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. But there was also intense volcanic activity in what is now India just before and after that event.

    Blame asteroid for demise of dinosaurs, n…

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    The Chicxulub asteroid impact event at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary ~66 Myr ago is widely considered responsible for the mass extinction event leading to the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs.

    Reduced contribution of sulfur to the ma…

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    We Finally Know Where The Asteroid That Killed The …

    Aug 16, 2024 · The Chicxulub event – the giant impact that ended the reign of non-avian dinosaurs, clearing the way for mammalian life to rise – was triggered by an asteroid from a region of the Solar System out past the orbit of Jupiter, …

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    The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid May Not Have Been As

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    What Happened At Chicxulub? The Asteroid Impact …

    Oct 24, 2024 · "About 65 million years ago at the boundary between the Cretaceous (the last geological period of the Mesozoic) and the Tertiary eras, a large asteroid came rushing out of space at a velocity of...

  6. HowStuffWorks
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    Did an Asteroid Impact at the Chicxulub Crater Kill Off …

    Jan 5, 2023 · 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 …

  8. CBC
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    Scientists believe they now know where the dinosaur-killing …

  9. Smithsonian Magazine
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    What Happened the Day a Giant, Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit the …

  10. BBC
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    The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was not alone

    Oct 3, 2024 · The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed.

  11. National Geographic Education Blog
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    Dinosaur Asteroid Hit the ‘Worst Possible Place’

    May 16, 2017 · How did an asteroid, comet, or other space rock lead to the demise of the dinosaurs? The impactor didn’t directly cause any extinctions. Instead, it induced a “global winter” (sometimes called an “impact winter”).

  12. EarthSky
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    Blame asteroid for demise of dinosaurs, not volcanoes

    Jan 6, 2025 · The huge Chicxulub asteroid impact, off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is generally accepted as the primary cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. But there was also ...