New theory behind Chicxulub impactor that killed the dinosaurs

The Chicxulub crater is thought to be the impact scar left over from the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and other species on Earth.

The 150-kilometre-wide Chicxulub crater, the second largest on Earth, suggests that an asteroid as wide as 15 kilometres across fell at a steep ...

The Chicxulub impact event was an ~100 million megaton blast that devastated the Gulf of Mexico region.

A study reveals the chemical makeup of the Chicxulub asteroid that collided with Earth and resulted in the extinction of nearly all ...

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 ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs and around three-quarters of all living species was almost certainly caused by a large asteroid impact 66 million years ago.

Our data indicate that the Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid, which had formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. The five other ...

The Chicxulub impactor is widely thought to have changed all that, leading to the dinosaur's eventual extinction.

It is believed to be the second largest impact structure on Earth, and the only one whose peak ring is intact and directly accessible for scientific research. List of impact structures on Earth · Cretaceous–Paleogene