Chicxulub Crater dust confirms cause of dinosaurs' extinction

The meteorite was suggested to represent a fragment of the Chicxulub impactor. Analysis suggested that it best fitted the criteria of the CV, CO and CR groups ...

2021年2月15日 — 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 ...

2023年11月16日 — Asteroid dust found at Chicxulub Crater confirms cause of dinosaurs' extinction. Although an asteroid impact has long been the suspected ...

The 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 ...

Summary of Atmospheric Effects Caused by Chicxulub Ejecta. Material from the vaporized impactor and target rocks rose from the Chicxulub crater in a vapor ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago.

UPDATE: Today, scientists published their first results from a drilling expedition into Chicxulub crater, the buried remnants of an asteroid impact off the ...

2023年11月1日 — Chicxulub asteroid impact created 2-year cloud of dust that may have killed the dinosaurs ... Researchers have so far overlooked the impact of ...