Models had predicted what should happen when a 12km-wide stony object from space ... port of Chicxulub. The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater formation ...

The asteroid that created the Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico is estimated ... The idea that Earth may have been hit by a cluster of large space rocks in the past is not a new one.

around the same time as the asteroid that created the 200km-wide Chicxulub crater. Though the Nadir crater is much smaller, ...

However, in 1991, scientists found that the Chicxulub crater was the right age to have ... (Like iridium, ruthenium is more abundant in space rocks than in Earth’s crust.) The team also analyzed ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for ... New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West Africa, leading ...

For comparison, the asteroid that caused the Chicxulub crater was about 6 miles in diameter. The team believes these two asteroids struck Earth around 25,000 years apart and did not cause waves of ...

About 66 million years ago, a space rock more than 6 miles wide ... in 2013 that a high-speed comet could have created the Chicxulub crater. Chicxulub hit Earth at a speed of 12 miles per second ...

The Princeton model shows (at left) that the structure of the Earth's surface at the time of the meteorite impact that caused the Chicxulub crater in Mexico would have placed the Deccan Traps in ...

First came a space rock 6-miles-wide that ... Boltysh rocks melted about 650,000 years after Chicxulub struck. The updated age for the Boltysh crater coincides with a period of intense global ...

66 million years ago an asteroid hit the planet. Now an expedition is underway to drill 1500m into the crater it created - the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, aiming to unearthing the secrets that ...