What Is a Meteor?
8. The Chicxulub Crater
Meteors can also be much, much larger; the size of a city or even greater. One meteor in particular is famous for being the likely cause of the dinosaurs being wiped out from our planet. The good news is that these are very rare.
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The bad news is that, statistically speaking, another meteor of that magnitude is long overdue. The Chicxulub Crater in Mexico is thought to be the location that this meteor impacted. The impact released so much power that it sent a shockwave around the world and threw dust up into the air that blocked the light from the sun. Technically speaking, this meteor was actually an asteroid because of its much larger size.
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