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  2. Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia

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    The Chicxulub crater (IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] ⓘ cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo (not the larger coastal town of Chicxulub Puerto ). [ 3 ]

  3. Scientists puzzled by asteroids that hit Earth 35 million ...

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    She noted that research into the Yucatan asteroid strike, also known as the Chicxulub impact crater, suggests a shift during less than a quarter of a century. And, previous investigations into the ...

  4. Alvarez hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The location of the impact was unknown when the Alvarez team developed their hypothesis, but later scientists discovered the Chicxulub Crater in the Yucatán Peninsula, now considered the likely impact site. [4] Badlands near Drumheller, Alberta where erosion has exposed the K–Pg boundary.

  5. Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary - Wikipedia

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    The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. [10] Its center is located near the town of Chicxulub, after which the crater is named. [11] It was formed by a large asteroid or comet about 10–15 km (6.2–9.3 mi) in diameter, [12] [13] the Chicxulub impactor, striking the Earth. The date of the ...

  6. Scientists think they know the origin of the asteroid that ...

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    Evidence at the Chicxulub crater supports the notion that the crash would have been devastating enough to send deadly vaporized rock and gas into the atmosphere, filling the Earth with dust ...

  7. Asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs originated beyond Jupiter

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    The impact at the end of the Cretaceous Period gouged the Chicxulub (pronounced CHIK-shu-loob) crater, 112 miles (180 km) wide and 12 miles (20 km) deep. ...

  8. Impact event - Wikipedia

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    An animation modelling the impact, and subsequent crater formation of the Chicxulub impact (University of Arizona, Space Imagery Center) The prehistoric Chicxulub impact, 66 million years ago, believed to be the cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, was caused by an asteroid estimated to be about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) wide. [3]

  9. Dinosaur-killing asteroid was likely a giant mudball, study says

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    However, in 1991, scientists found that the Chicxulub crater was the right age to have been formed by a massive asteroid strike coinciding with the demise of the dinosaurs.