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.

Illustration: Wikipedia Discovered in 2022, the Nadir crater lies off the coast of Guinea, West Africa. The 400m-wide asteroid created a crater 8.5km in diameter. The exact timing of the impact is ...

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 ...

New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West Africa, leading scientists to believe another asteroid hit Earth around the ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published by researchers at Heriot-Watt University. The images confirm the 9km Nadir Crater ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...