THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.
The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...
As the theory goes, a 6-mile-wide meteor plunged into Earth near modern-day Chicxulub on the Yucatan peninsula. The impact launched vaporized rock and debris into the air, covering the planet in a ...
One of the most famous of these 200 or so impact craters is the 200 km diameter Chicxulub impact crater in the Yucatan ...
NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032.
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