Questions tagged [chicxulub]
Questions regarding the celestrial body which most likely killed the dinosaurs.
8
questions
3
votes
4
answers
5k
views
Which kind of celestial body killed dinosaurs?
Well, the internet lies a lot, so there's so much information mixed with misinformation...
Some sources call what killed the dinosaurs an asteroid and others a meteor.
Is there any consensus on this?
...
- 229
8
votes
1
answer
2k
views
What would happen if Venus was hit by a Chicxulub-like meteor?
What would happen if Venus was hit by a Chicxulub-like meteor? Would the dense atmosphere and high surface pressure and temperature lead to a different result compared to what happened here on Earth?
- 339
10
votes
1
answer
2k
views
How many iridium layers do we know, besides the K-Pg one (the dinosaur killer "smoking gun")?
The hypothesis of a large asteroid impact playing a role in dinosaurs extinction was strengthened by the discovery of a global iridium anomaly in the geologic record, at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg)...
- 1,099
3
votes
0
answers
247
views
Other side of Earth when the Dinosaur-killer struck
When the (Chicxulub) asteroid hit Yucatan, what was it like in the minutes, days and weeks afterward on distant locations on Earth?
Related
How loud was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?
- 1,608
13
votes
1
answer
5k
views
How loud was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?
Asteroid impacts on the Earth can be very loud when they break up in the atmosphere, like Chelyabinsk, captured in this video:
The Chelyabinsk asteroid break-up was ...
- 16.2k
30
votes
5
answers
11k
views
How early could we detect an asteroid the size of the one that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs?
Would we know months, years ahead? How sophisticated is our technology's ability to detect it at 100% accuracy?
- 401
85
votes
2
answers
18k
views
Could the dinosaurs have seen the asteroid that killed them?
Wikipedia says the Chicxulub impactor is thought to have been a 10-15 km diameter object. Would it have been visible to a (human*) naked eye before impact? And if so, would it have appeared like a ...
- 955
10
votes
2
answers
668
views
Time of day of the K-Pg asteroid impact?
Is it possible to determine what daytime the Chicxulub impactor struck the Earth 66 Mya? Was it day or night, what was the current phase of the Moon, etc.? Can sediments, rhythmites or something else ...
- 101