Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia
WEBThe Chicxulub crater (IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] ⓘ 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 Chicxulub Pueblo (not the larger coastal town of …
What Happened the Day a Giant, Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit the …
WEBSep 9, 2019 · One of the greatest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck...
Chicxulub Crater dust confirms cause of dinosaurs’ extinction
WEBNov 16, 2023 · The cosmic artillery strike gouged a 125-mile-wide (200 km) crater in Earth surface, lofting plumes of vaporized rock and debris into the air that globally blocked out views of the Sun for...
New theory behind Chicxulub impactor that killed the dinosaurs
WEBFeb 15, 2021 · It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. 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.
Updated: Drilling of dinosaur-killing impact crater explains …
WEBNov 17, 2016 · UPDATE: Today, scientists published their first results from a drilling expedition into Chicxulub crater, the buried remnants of an asteroid impact off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Scientists Get Unprecedented Look into Chicxulub Crater That ... - PBS
WEBMay 3, 2016 · An expedition eighteen miles off the coast of Mexico is drilling into the seafloor to probe the crater created by the Chicxulub asteroid, the space rock that led to the dinosaur’s demise.
Chicxulub Impact Event - Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
WEBThe Chicxulub impact event was an ~100 million megaton blast that devastated the Gulf of Mexico region. The blast generated a core of superheated plasma in excess of 10,000 degrees. Although that thermal pulse would have been relatively short-lived, a handful of minutes, it would have been lethal for nearby life.
Chicxulub Impact Event - Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
WEBThe crater currently underlies the northern coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula, as can be seen in gravity maps of the area. At the time of impact, the Gulf of Mexico covered the northern part of the peninsula, so the impact occurred into a shallow sea.
Here’s What Happened the Day the Dinosaurs Died - National …
WEBJun 11, 2016 · The blood-warm seas of the Gulf of Mexico teem with life. As this lost world of dinosaurs and outsize insects squawks and buzzes and whirs to life, an asteroid the size of a mountain is...
Last day of the dinosaurs' reign captured in stunning detail
WEBSep 9, 2019 · This change in the rock marks one of the most catastrophic events in Earth’s history, some 66 million years ago, when an epic asteroid slammed into the sea just offshore of Mexico’s Yucatán...