In spite of these immense measurements the crater is hard to see even if you re standing on its rim. The asteroid that created this crater was about 6 miles 10 kilometers wide and hit the earth 65 million years ago. On the northern coast of the yucatan peninsula near the town of chicxulub mexico is a crater about 120 miles 193 kilometers in diameter.
The meteorite that produced the chicxulub crater was about 10 km in diameter. It appears to have a diameter of 145 to 180 km which makes it one of the largest confirmed impact structures on earth. The crater now buried beneath kilometer thick sediment has been imaged using new geophysical techniques.
This cataclysmic event that triggered a world wide tsunami and disrupted global climates has been linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs and up to 75 of all other life. 65 million years ago a massive asteroid crashed into mexico s yucatan peninsula a site now known as the chicxulub crater. Today scientists published their first results from a drilling expedition into chicxulub crater the buried remnants of an asteroid impact off the yucatán peninsula in mexico that killed.
While it s been generally. Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago thanks to a massive asteroid that hit the earth in the yucatán peninsula in mexico now known as the chicxulub crater. The crater measures between 180 and 240 kilometres across indicating an impactor of colossal size the biggest impact confirmed on earth.
The chicxulub crater on the yucatan peninsula is believed to be the most likely site of the asteroid impact responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs. It was formed when a large asteroid or comet about 11 to 81 kilometers 6 8 to 50 3 miles in diameter known as the chicxulub impactor struck the earth. Its center is located offshore near the town of chicxulub after which the crater is named.
Tʃʼikʃuluɓ is an impact crater buried underneath the yucatán peninsula in mexico. The chicxulub crater ˈ tʃ iː k ʃ ʊ l uː b.
