SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The impact site, known as the Chicxulub crater, is centred on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The asteroid is thought to have been between 10 and 15 kilometres wide, but the velocity of its collision caused the creation of a much larger crater, 150 kilometres in diameter. It’s the second-largest crater on the planet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sixty-six-million years ago, a nearly nine-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth, sparking a mass extinction that wiped out most dinosaurs and three-quarters of the planet’s plant and animal species. Now we’re learning that the Chicxulub asteroid also generated a massive “megatsunami” with waves more than a mile high.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to this theory, a huge asteroid struck the Yucatan Peninsula between 65 and 66 million years ago, creating the Chicxulub crater. The impact caused violent earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides which dramatically changed the Earth’s climate, making it impossible for the dinosaurs to survive.

Detailed explanation-5: -AUSTIN, Texas-Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago by finding a key piece of evidence: asteroid dust inside the impact crater.