What is the location of impact for the meteorite proposed to have killed dinosaurs?

Answer 1

In the Gulf of Mexico - off the coast of the Yucatan

The Yucatan makes up the south eastern edge of the impact crater in noth America it hit 65 million years ago in the after the Jurassic period

Answer 2

The so-called Chicxulub Crater is a circle that lies half on the northern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, and half in the Gulf of Mexico itself. The fact that a large object from space struck the earth there some 65 million years or so ago has been worked out using the evidence from the mineral analysis of the K-T boundary. Use the link below to see the Wikipedia post and check out the map and other information our friends there have put up.

Answer 3

The most current theory states that the asteroid responsible for killing off the dinosaurs struck about 65.5 million years ago, landing just offshore of what is now the town of Chicxulub (pronounced CHICK-suh-loob), on the north coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

The Chicxulub crater was only discovered in 1978, in part because it was so large (at over 110 miles wide) that it required modern airborne survey methods to detect it. The asteroid was believed to have been about six miles wide, weighing as much as a mountain; when it hit the Earth, the energy it released has been estimated at about five million times the explosive force of the Krakatoa volcano! It also left behind a layer of iridium-rich dust which geologists refer to as the K-T boundary.

The truth is, no-one knows IF a meteorite DID kill the dinosaurs, there are a million trillion theories. But, the dinosaurs would have been killed around 160 million years ago

Nobody really knows, but that is probably the main theory. Others include a disease among the dinosaurs, a disease among their pray, a change in climate or another natural disaster such as a massive volcano erruption.

Probably the most popular theory right now is the Asteroid Theory.

According to this theory a large asteroid or comet collided with Earth about 65 million years ago. Scientists think that such a large collision would throw so much dust into the air that sunlight would not be able to shine and plants and animals would die.

Answer2: Listing some speculations as to what happened to them, Princeton scientist G. L. Jepson stated:

"Authors with varying competence have suggested that dinosaurs disappeared because the climate deteriorated . . . or that the diet did. . . . Other writers have put the blame on disease, parasites, . . . changes in the pressure or composition of the atmosphere, poison gases, volcanic dust, excessive oxygen from plants, meteorites, comets, gene pool drainage by little mammalian egg-eaters, . . . cosmic radiation, shift of Earth's rotational poles, floods, continental drift, . . . drainage of swamp and lake environments, sunspots."-The Riddle of the Dinosaur.

It is apparent from such speculation that scientists are not able, with any certainty, to answer the question: What happened to the dinosaurs?

University of Arizona scientist David Jablonski concludes that 'for many plants and animals, extinction was abrupt and somehow special.Mass extinctions are not merely the cumulative effects of gradual dyings. Something unusual happened.' Their arrival was also abrupt. Scientific American observes: "The sudden appearance of both suborders of the pterosaurs without any obvious antecedents is fairly typical of the fossil record." That is also the case with dinosaurs. Their relatively sudden appearance and disappearance contradicts the commonly accepted view of slow evolution.

Answer 4

Where the Yucatan peninsular of Mexico is today. However, please note that recent research has revealed that the asteroid impact pre-dates the demise of the Dinosaurs and therefore, contray to popular belief the asteroid could not have been the direct cause.

Answer 5

One possible contender is the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. This large impact crater is thought to have been formed by an Asteroid impact that coincides with the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Answer 6

Geologists believe the impact happened in what is now the Yucatan Peninsula. Evidence includes the fact that the iridium layer is thicker there than anywhere else, and it gets progressively thinner the further you go from there, and features of the crust that appear to show an eroded and buried crater.

Answer 7

The meteorite impact that is proposed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs occurred in present-day Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. The impact left a crater known as the Chicxulub crater, which is around 180 kilometers (110 miles) in diameter.

Answer 8

The crater from the K-T impact event is centered near Chixulub in the Yucatan Peninsula in modern day Mexico.