Two Asteroids, One Dinosaur Extinction: Second Crater Bolsters Double Impact Theory

But the Chicxulub asteroid evidently didnt work alone.

The teams research waspublishedtoday inCommunications Earth & Environment.

In its 2022 paper, the team suggested three potential origins of the crater.

An artist’s concept of an asteroid hitting Earth 66 million years ago.Illustration: Mark Garlick

We would expect around 10,000 times more energy to be released from Chicxulub.

So the Nadir impact would have been dwarfed by Chicxulub.

But confirmation of the Nadir Craters age doubles down on that idea.

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As for the Moon, not so much.