Despite that fallout, the Nadir impact would have been far less devastating than the one from the roughly 10-kilometer-wide Chicxulub asteroid, says Michael Rampino, a geologist from New York ...

The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean. CNET.

More information: Uisdean Nicholson et al, The Nadir Crater offshore West Africa: A candidate Cretaceous-Paleogene impact structure, Science Advances (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn3096 Journal ...

A model of the Nadir crater impact sequence over the first 150 seconds. Graphic: Nicholson et al., Science Advances 2022 Lots of evidence suggests that most life on Earth died after an asteroid ...

Now, the Nadir Crater opens up the possibility of more than one impact contributing to the end of that era. Researchers believe the crater may have been formed by the breakup of a larger asteroid ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction, but new findings suggest it might have been part of a duo. A second asteroid impact might have occurred around ...

Nicholson said it was possible that the asteroid strike was linked to the Chicxulub impact, or it could simply be a coincidence – an asteroid of this size would hit Earth every 700,000 years.

About 66 million years ago, Earth was smacked in the face by an asteroid. No, not that one. Another one. In the journal Science Advances, scientists on Wednesday reported that a huge, buried pit ...

The asteroid that created the Nadir crater measured around 450-500m wide, and scientists think it hit Earth at about 72,000km/h. The nearest humans have come to this scale of event was the ...

The asteroid that created the Nadir crater measured around 450-500m wide, and scientists think it hit Earth at about 72,000km/h. The nearest humans have come to this scale of event was the ...

The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean. Joe Hindy. See full bio. Joe Hindy Nov. 2, 2024 6:30 a.m. PT. 3 min ...