23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
... based in Japan are suggesting that the crater impact at Chicxulub is not solely responsible for the KPg extinction event, but... shows a sharp spike of iridium which corresponds to the Chicxulub asteroid impact, however, there is also a broad iridium ...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
...human harm, many orders of magnitude less than the Chicxulub impact that terminated the dominance of the dinosaurs, 65 ... of 100 km diameter are about ten times as big as the Chicxulub impactor. If we assume that the total mass of objects that are...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
...when these strike an ocean, such as the famous Chicxulub crater buried beneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, megatsunamis can form.... In the case of Chicxulub, a wall of water 100 metres tall that would have reached...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... surface of our Earth, we can see scars of ancient impacts from asteroids in places like Barringer crater in Arizona or Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan. Within the past 100 years, the Earth has seen a meteorite explode in the...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... peninsula as a result of the entry of a celestial body with a diameter of about 10 km which formed the 180 km diameter Chicxulub crater. This collision caused the extinction of 75 per cent of Earth’s flora and fauna, including dinosaurs. Collisions...
22 January 2020
2.2 billion year old impact crater is confirmed as Earth's oldest
...the effects of impact cratering have long been recognised as drivers of climate change over Earth’s history; the Chicxulub crater in Mexico is another example which is believed to have resulted in global cooling of oceans and production of widespread...
