Chicxulub asteroid: Where did the asteroid that killed dinosaurs million years ago come from?
The findings states that 10-km-wide asteroids from the outer half of the asteroid belt can hit Earth once every 250 million years on an average (Photo: SwRI/Don Davis) Some 66 million years ago, a large asteroid, about 10-km-wide, hit the Earth. The large asteroid hit the ground near Mexico which further created a 180-kilometre-diameter impact … Read more