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It wasn't that big! The theory is that a large meteor hit the Earth and the explosion caused a large amount of dust in the upper atmosphere which caused climate change and the dinosaurs (or most of them) didn't survive.

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When dinosars ruled the earth who was next on earth?

The time period of the dinosaurs was called the age of reptiles. This is when reptiles dominated Earth, like dinosaurs, lizards, etc. But when the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, most of the reptiles died. this is when mammals took control and started dominating. But humans didnt come out to being until around 4 million years ago.


How deep is a meteorite embedded in the ground after it hits?

Generally, meteorites do not become "embedded" in the ground. More typically, a meteor will explode into thousands of fragments while still high in the atmosphere. If a very large meteor strikes the Earth, the resulting explosion will often throw debris over a wide area.


What is the famous meteor?

There are plenty of famous meteors, to know which one specifically you are speaking about, I would need a name. The most famous is probably the one that many believe killed all the dinosaurs. This meteor is estimated to be about 6 miles wide, and created a crater about 110 miles across. Many believe that the Chicxulub Crater in Yucatan, Mexico is this meteor.


Fragment that enters the earths atmosphere but does not hit earth?

Meteor. Meteorites are the ones that do hit Earth.


Do meteors hit Jupiter?

yes, Numerically-speaking, the orbits of meteoroids dominate our knowledge of the orbital parameters of Earth-crossing small bodies: the meteoroid orbit database outstrips the numbers of observed Earth-crossing asteroids and comets by over two orders of magnitude. Whilst it is often imagined that small meteoroids are predominantly derived from comets through stream formation, and thus must have comet-like orbits, in fact the majority of observed meteoroid orbits are more similar to those of Apollo and Aten asteroids, with small, low-inclination orbits. In all about 69 000 meteoroid orbits are available from the IAU Meteor Data Center in Lund, Sweden, having been measured in various optical and radar observation programs based in the U.S.A., Canada, the former Soviet Union, Somalia, the Czech Republic, Japan, and Australia. Depending upon the detection method used, the original meteoroids producing the observed meteoric phenomena range in size from 100 m to 10 cm. Here the raw orbital, radiant and speed distributions are presented for the major surveys, a common format being used so that they may be intercompared such that general conclusions may be drawn, and the differences between the survey results identified. These data, collected over the past several decades, provide an important source of information on the origin and evolution of the small bodies in the solar system. information by springer link.com

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Was there ever a meteor shower on earth that messed up life?

No, not a meteor shower. The dinosaurs became extinct after a meteor struck the earth which blocked out the sun and killed much of the vegetataion that the dinosaurs used for food.


Will the meteor that kill the dinosaurs kill us too?

No, because that meteor already hit the earth.


Why did dinosaurs get exstinked?

A Meteor hit the earth and destroyed everything


Did a lot of dinosaurs become extinct before the meteor?

Yes! Many dinosaurs such as stegosaurus and apatosaurus died long before the meteor hit Earth.


How where dinos extinct?

Dinosaurs were extinct due to a meteor that hit the earth.


Where were most dinosaurs living?

no a meteor crasheed into earth and killed them all


Have to be 100 percent correct The dinosaurs died of a meteor hitting earth. After the meteor hit earth did all of the dinosaurs die or there was some dinosaurs left and the just died of low food?

It is believed that they did die of a meteor but no one is really positive. If they did die of a meteor than the rest probably died from all the dust in the air after the crash. Some aquatic dinosaurs did survive though that is why their are crocodiles,komodo dragons,turtles,etc...(which evolved from these dinosaurs.)


Earth is this because it got hit by a meteor in the Gulf of Mexico?

"Without dinosaurs".


Where was the place that the meteor stuck the earth that caused the dinosaurs to go extinct?

mexaco


One theory about what wiped out the dinosaurs says that one of these may have hit Earth?

A meteor.


What hit Earth a long time ago?

a meteor witch killed all the dinosaurs


What is the current theory on the death of the Dinosaurs?

scientist think that a huge meteriod hit earth some dinosaurs died.the merteriod killed all plants the meats eaters died of hunger and the plant eaters died of hunger too.the meat eaters died because their food wich was the other dinosaurs died.the plant eaters died because the plants died of the metriod