Forensic examination of asteroid dust

The 10-kilometre wide asteroid which slammed into earth around 66 million years ago left a 200-metre-wide crater, killed dinosaurs... and led to the age of mammals

Richard Collins: "We owe our existence to a 10 kilometre-wide lump of space debris, which slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico around 66 million years ago. Weighing as much as a mountain, and travelling at 20 kilometres per second, its impact left a crater 200 kilometres wide and 20 milometres deep, centred offshore near Chicxulub, ‘the Devil’s flea’ in Mayan."

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds — the Bhagavad Gita

We owe our existence to a 10 kilometre-wide lump of space debris, which slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico around 66 million years ago. Weighing as much as a mountain, and travelling at 20 kilometres per second, its impact left a crater 200 kilometres wide and 20 milometres deep, centred offshore near Chicxulub, ‘the Devil’s flea’ in Mayan.