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 ...

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

The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...

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 ...

It’s thought that the huge Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico was caused ... and catalog 90% of near-Earth objects (NEOs). The space agency duly obliged, and now we have observatories ...

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...

Chicxulub Crater - The impact that changed life on Earth ... Tim Peake/Nasa/ESA Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula viewed from the International Space Station So much sulphur mixed with water and injected ...

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 ...

On impact, the research shows, the Chicxulub ... crater. The authors estimate that the asteroid's power was equivalent to 10 billion of the atomic bombs used in World War II. The space rock ...