Thesmall, coastal town of Chicxulub Puerto is believed to be the centre of the impact crater (Credit: Adamcastforth/Wikimedia Commons) The idea that a giant asteroid had wiped out the dinosaurs
WhatHappened the Day a Giant, Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit the Earth | Science| Smithsonian Magazine. SCIENCE. What Happened the Day a Giant,Theasteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have catapulted life from Earth to Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa, researchers say.The impact: If a huge asteroid had struck Earth at the end of the Cretaceous, it would have flung off particles from the site where it hit. So, if the asteroid hypothesis were correct, we should find these particles at the impact Scientists agreed that the evidence was strong—dinosaurs had gone extinct and there was a widespread Thebig picture: A massive asteroid slammed into Earth roughly 66 million years ago, triggering a cataclysmic event that wiped out roughly 75 percent of all life on the planet. Now, researchers Thecrater left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is located in the Yucatán Peninsula. a comet would only need to be about ~7 kilometers in diameter to impact Earth with enough
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