Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small city smashed into the earth. This impact, the one that would lead to the end of the dinosaurs, left a scar several miles underground and more than 115 miles wide. Chicxulub, which lies underneath the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexic...
Scientists are aiming to drill into the crater left by theasteroid that may have killed off the...Thompson, Ben
The newfound crater is more than twice the size of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula, which marks the impact that may have ultimately killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The Chicxulub space rock is thought to have been 6 miles wide, while the Wilkes Land meteor could hav...
We combined the results from four independent laboratories around the world to make sure we got this right,” said lead author Steven Goderis, a geochemistry professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in apress release. “We are now at the level of coincidence that geologically doesn’t ...