Which Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs?
Known as the Chicxulub Impactor, This Large Object Has an Estimated Width of 6 Miles (9.6 Kilometers) and Produced a Crater in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula That...
Known as the Chicxulub impactor, this large object has an estimated width of 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) and produced a crater in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that spans 90 miles (145 kilometers).
Where is the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs located?
The impact site, known as the Chicxulub crater, is centred on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The asteroid is thought to have been between 10 and 15 kilometres wide, but the velocity of its collision caused the creation of a much larger crater, 150 kilometres in diameter - the second-largest crater on the planet.
How fast was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?
Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second -- 150 times faster than a jet airliner. Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago.
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