{"id":112167,"date":"2024-10-09T13:46:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T06:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112167"},"modified":"2024-10-09T13:46:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T06:46:55","slug":"scientists-make-stunning-discovery-about-asteroid-that-wiped-out-dinososaurs-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112167","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make stunning discovery about asteroid that wiped out dinososaurs | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/asteroids\">The asteroid<\/a> that crashed into <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/science\">Earth<\/a> 66 million years ago and wiped out the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/dinosaur\">dinosaurs<\/a> was not alone, scientists have astonishingly claimed.<\/p>\n<p>According to a team at Heriot-Watt University, there was a second, smaller asteroid, known as the Nadir asteroid, which crashed\u00a0into the sea off the coast of <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/africa\">West Africa<\/a> creating a large crater during the same era.<\/p>\n<p>The crater was first discovered in 2022 and would have been a &#8220;catastrophic event&#8221; causing a tsunami at least 800m across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Uisdean Nicholson, who discovered the crater, believes the space rock would have caused a fireball as it entered the earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Imagine the asteroid was hitting <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/1886487\/glasgow-best-place-to-live-london\">Glasgow<\/a> and you\u2019re in <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/edinburgh\">Edinburgh<\/a>, around 50 km away. The fireball would be about 24 times the size of the sun in the sky &#8211; enough to set trees and plants on fire in Edinburgh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The bigger asteroid, commonly credited with causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, landed in what is now Mexico and left a 180km wide crater.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/science\">Scientists<\/a> are unable to say whether or not the smaller impact occurred before or afterwards but believe that it occurred within the same era.<\/p>\n<p>The Nadir asteroid would have been between 400-500m and would have hit the earth at a speed of approximately 72,000km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>The violent impact into the sea has left a 9km crater and would have caused a large volume of water to have left the seabed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Dr Nicholson and his team hope to better understand the impact and have begun to analyse high-resolution 3D data which they hope will show them the second asteroid\u2019s characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>He told The Independent: \u201cIt reveals this crater in three dimensions for the first time \u2013 the first time we\u2019ve ever been able to see inside an impact crater.<\/p>\n<p>It is rare for one, let alone two asteroids of this size to crash into earth in such a small timeframe, with our position in the solar system offering a degree of protection from large space debris.<\/p>\n<p>The nearest humans have come to this scale of event was the Tunguska event in 1908 when a 50-metre asteroid exploded in the skies above Siberia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1959208\/Scientists-asteroid-dinosaurs-second-crater\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The asteroid that crashed into Earth 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs was not alone, scientists have astonishingly claimed. 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