This Asteroid Was Bigger Than Everest Is Tall
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, the Chicxulub impactor, was about 10 kilometers wide. If you placed it at sea level, it would have stood taller than Mount Everest.How Powerful Was the Chicxulub Impact?
And It Hit Fast
A 2021 study estimated the Chicxulub impactor struck at about 20 kilometers per second, coming in at an angle of 45–60 degrees from the northeast. It hit a shallow sea over a carbonate platform, not dry land.How Powerful Was the Chicxulub Impact?
