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What is chicxulub?
The Chicxulub is a crater. It is a prehistoric crater that has long been buried underneath the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
What era was the chicxulub crater formed?
End of the Mesozoic era
What causes an impact crater to form on a planets surface?
When asteriods and meteroids hit into the planets. They will impact and maek a crater.
How deep are the craters on the moon?
The Chicxulub crater is an ancient crater located just off of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. This crater is the one which implicates the demise of the dinosaurs over 65 million years ago. The crater has a diameter of over 180 kilometers (110 miles) and the impacting asteroid has been calculated to be at least 10 km (6 miles) in diameter. The amount of energy released has been calculated to be over 2 million times greater than the largest nuclear bomb (Tsar Bomba) at 50 megatons.
Are there craters on the sun?
No. The sun is a ball of gas and plasma. There is nothing solid in which a crater might form.
What is chicxulub?
The Chicxulub is a crater. It is a prehistoric crater that has long been buried underneath the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
Where is the Chicxulub Crater located?
The Chicxulub Crater is located near the city Chicxulub in Mexico. This crater is approximately 66 million years old and discovered by Antonio Camago and Glenn Penfield in the late 1970's.
Name of the crater that hit the dinosaurs?
Chicxulub impact crater.
When the chicxulub crater formed?
End of the Mesozoic era
Where did the asteroid chicxulub hit?
The Chicxulub crater lies buried, straddling the northwest coastline of the Yucatán peninsula
What era was the chicxulub crater formed?
End of the Mesozoic era
What state in Mexico did the meteor Chicxulub strike?
The Chicxulub crater is the area in the state of Yucatan that was hit by an asteroid. It is about 66 million years old.
How long is the crater Mexico?
You mean the Chicxulub crater, which is connected with the extinction of dinosaurs? It has a diameter of approximately 180 kilometers (112 miles).
How many years ago was the Chicxulub crater formed?
About 65 million years ago.
Where did the asteroid hit?
The Chicxulub crater lies buried, straddling the northwest coastline of the Yucatán peninsula
Where is the crater in Mexico caused by the big bang?
I guess you mean the crater in Mexico where many think the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs fell. That is the Chicxulub crater, covering almost half of the Yucatan peninsula.
What is the name of the comet that wiped out dinosaurs?
Scientists usually refer to this as an asteroid, not a comet. It's the asteroid that caused the Chicxulub crater.
