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Largest Impact Event in Recorded History May Have Been An Iron Asteroid That Never Actually Hit Earth Published May 06, 2020 at 11:57 AM EDT Updated May 14, 2020 at 9:05 AM EDT By ...

The Chicxulub asteroid (illustrated) slammed into Earth where today’s Yucatán Peninsula sits. That impact formed a tsunami that spread across the Gulf of Mexico that may have left giant ripples ...