When a large dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub crater ... Within the crater, samples of rock were taken, and their temperature at the ...
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.
Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with what’s now the ...