Mexico was the place where the asteroid, responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs from earth hit.
The large rocky object, which had an estimated width of approximately 6 miles (10 km) dubbed as Chicxulub impactor.
The asteroid created the hole covering about 90 miles of area, and its impact was not only the extinction of dinosaurs but also around 75% of species at a time.
The mass extinction of all the dinosaurs and all other species took place 66 million years ago and now has been widely accepted as the end of the Mesozoic era.
ORIGIN OF MARAUDING ASTEROID –
At the Texas-based Southwest Research Institute, according to the researchers, the impactor likely came from the outer half of the main asteroid belt which is between Mars and Jupiter.
Further they added that the processes that deliver the large asteroids to Earth from that region occur at least 10 times more frequently than previously thought.
The lead researcher Dr. David Nesvorny and the colleagues Dr. Simone Marchi and Dr. William Bottke also informed that several studies are already conducted over past times on the mass extinction of dinosaurs which ended in arise of new question!!
Scientists identified the Chicxulub impactor as a carbonaceous chondrite.
