The Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Actually Been a One-Two Punch
Everyone knows of the asteroid that spelled the end of all non-avian dinosaurs—the Chicxulub impactor—but a new ... them has ...
BBC6 年
Splosh! How the dinosaur-killing asteroid made Chicxulub crater
Initially, a near-instantaneous bowl would have been created some 30km deep and up to 100km wide ... in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub. The impact description - scientists ...
BBC5 年
Chicxulub asteroid impact: Stunning fossils record dinosaurs' demise
Geochemists have managed to link the fallout material directly to the so-called Chicxulub impact site in the Gulf ... which would have picked up everything in its path and dumped it into the ...
来自MSN4 个月
Scientists Trace the Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
On an otherwise typical spring day some 66 million years ago, an asteroid fell from the sky over what is today the Chicxulub ... up on a collision course for our planet. The aftermath of the ...