it seems it may have had a little help from the asteroid that hit the Nadir crater. Perhaps more frightening is the blow-by-blow result of the impact, which scientists were also able to reconstruct.

The impact crater of the second one lies unseen, 300m under the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Discovered in 2022, the Nadir crater lies off the coast of Guinea, West Africa. The 400m-wide asteroid ...

An artist's concept of an asteroid hitting Earth 66 million years ... times more energy to be released from Chicxulub. So the Nadir impact would have been dwarfed by Chicxulub.” ...

The huge asteroid ... impact of this size in human history, and scientists normally have to study eroded craters on Earth or images of craters on other planets. To further understand the Nadir ...

Striking along the coast of West Africa, this asteroid—which left behind the nine- kilometer-wide Nadir crater—would ... pinpointing its exact time of impact. The end of non-avian dinosaur ...

Based on simulations the researchers ran in 2022, the Nadir Crater was most likely formed when an asteroid with a radius of roughly 400 meters (1,312 feet) smacked into the ocean. This impact ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left ... The 5-mile-wide Nadir Crater was found ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 reaches level 3 on the Torino Scale Asteroid's impact risk corridor spans multiple continents NASA telescope will get closer look at object in March Asteroid 2024 YR4 reaches ...