Chicxulub crater. Artwork showing the location of the Chicxulub impact crater (centre) on the Yucatan Peninsula,Mexico. This impact may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and 70% of all Earth's species 65 million years ago. The 5 red dots represent the cities of (from left to right): Mexico City,Tempico (where material ejec- ted from the crater has been found),Guatemala City,Havanna and Miami. The crater is about 180 kilometres (km) wide and was caused by an asteroid or comet core which was 10-20 km across. The impact threw trillions of tonnes of dust into the atmosphere which may have blocked the Sun's light and caused global climate changes | |
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