- Five-mile asteroid impact crater below Atlantic captured in ‘exquisite’
detail by seismic data
New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the
Atlantic Ocean have been published today by researchers at...
from: Heriot-Watt University
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- 3D anatomy of the Cretaceous–Paleogene age Nadir Crater | Communications
Earth & Environment
The Nadir Crater offshore West Africa is a recently proposed near K-Pg
impact structure identified on 2D seismic. Here we present 3D seismic...
from: Nature
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- Two Asteroids, One Dinosaur Extinction: Second Crater Bolsters Double
Impact Theory
The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old,
suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded...
from: Gizmodo
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- The Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Actually Been a One-Two Punch
Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a
second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.
from: Popular Mechanics
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- The Dinosaur Age Ended With Not One, but Two Asteroid Impacts, Scientists
Say
The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the
rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ocean.
from: CNET
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- Scientists discover there wasn’t just one asteroid which killed dinosaurs –
after 66 million years
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.
from: MSN
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- Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Had an Accomplice, Study Suggests
Thanks to decades of collaboration between geologists, paleontologists,
meteorologists, and astronomers, we possess a fairly confident...
from: ExtremeTech
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- Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off, say scientists
Scans of underwater crater in West Africa suggest another large asteroid
smashed into the planet around the same time.
from: The Guardian
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- Nadir crater: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was not alone
A second asteroid hit Earth around the same time causing a "catastrophic"
event.
from: BBC
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