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May 15, 2017 - Scientists who drilled into the impact crater associated with the demise of ... under the Gulf of Mexico that were hit by an asteroid 66 million years ago. ... reach that made dinosaurs extinct – it was where the impact happened," ...

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Its center is located near the town of Chicxulub, after which the crater is named. It was formed by a large asteroid or comet about 11 to 81 kilometres (6.8 to 50.3 miles) in diameter, the Chicxulub impactor, striking the Earth.

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The last such mass extinction led to the demise of the dinosaurs and coincided with a large meteorite impact; this is the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (also known as the K–T or K–Pg extinction event), which occurred 66 million years ago.

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May 6, 2016 - ... the Gulf of Mexico have hit the layer deposited when an asteroid the ... created when an asteroid the size of Staten Island, N.Y., struck Earth ...