Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...

The impact site of the second asteroid is called the Nadir crater, where rock was liquified and a tsunami launched into the ...

This is the feature that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub. The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater ...

Dr Rochette examined the site more closely and concluded that the impact of a meteor may have created ... The second biggest ...

The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub, which crashed off the coast of what is now the Yucatán ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

Geochemists have managed to link the fallout material directly to the so-called Chicxulub impact site in ... or more hours to reach the site from the crater, but seismic waves - and a subsequent ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for ... New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West Africa, leading ...

If the simulations were accurate, the Nadir Crater was the same age as the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub Crater. A map showing the location of Nadir Crater at West Africa's Guinea Plateau.

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.

So, while the Chicxulub asteroid was the one that killed the dinosaurs, it seems it may have had a little help from the asteroid that hit the Nadir crater ... The largest meteor impact in ...