Aftermath of Chicxulub asteroid impact with meteoritic debris falling back to Earth, animation. The view zooms in on the large crater created by the large asteroid that collided with the Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now Mexico. This impact is believed to have led to the death of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. The impact formed the Chicxulub crater, which is around 200 kilometres wide. The impact would have thrown trillions of tons of dust into the atmosphere, cooling the Earth's climate significantly, which may have been responsible for the mass extinction. A layer of iridium-rich rock, known as the K-Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene) boundary, is thought to be the remnants of the impact debris | |
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