Models had predicted what should happen when a 12km-wide stony object from space ... port of Chicxulub. The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater formation ...

A sketch of the Chicxulub crater under the sea with the deep seafloor showing the different types of observed bioturbations (Ichnogenera), with photos from the studied cores. Courtesy Francisco J.

The model also revealed that the Chicxulub impact, when the Earth's surface and shape are considered, would have likely been too small to cause the Deccan Traps. Credit Images by Conor Myhrvold ...

The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater ... the space rock that ...

The Chicxulub ... and left a huge crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula – but it may not have acted alone. New research ...

Impact breccia: The rock recovered from the Chicxulub Crater tells a story Scientists ... Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula viewed from the International Space Station So much sulphur mixed with water ...

First came a space rock 6-miles-wide ... The rock carved out a 15-mile-wide crater into what is now central Ukraine. Scientists once thought both Boltysh and Chicxulub contributed to the mass ...

About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive meteorite left a crater there ... wasn't the only space rock that changed Earth's climate. The 6-mile-wide asteroid that struck Chicxulub, Mexico, 66 million ...