The Chicxulub crater (Spanish pronunciation: [t͡ʃikʃuˈlub] ⓘ 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 …

2019年9月9日 · The immense Chicxulub crater is a remnant of one of the most consequential days in the history of life on Earth. The asteroid strike triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass extinction.

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 and goes 12 miles deep. Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end, scientists say, by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with the end of ...

2025年1月26日 · Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the estimated sulfur release and its effects on the Earth’s climate. This new data suggests a milder impact winter, offering insights into how some species might have survived the drastic changes.

The Chicxulub crater is a large meteorite crater. It was probably made by the meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and other animals ~65 mya. It is partly in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and partly underwater.

At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a city collided with Earth. The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres...

The Chicxulub Impact event produced a shock wave and air blast that radiated across the seas, over coastlines, and deep into the continental interior. Winds far in excess of 1000 kilometers per hour were possible near the impact site, although they …

2024年10月24日 · Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby Chicxulub Pueblo. After this unusually large impact crater was confirmed,...

2023年1月5日 · Scientists named this unseen landmark the Chicxulub crater, after Chicxulub, Mexico, a village close to its geographic center. The offending space object that hit our planet tens of millions of years ago is called the Chicxulub impactor. Most experts think the …

2023年11月16日 · Researchers think new evidence found in the Chicxulub Crater finally closes the case of what happened to the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.