Chicxulub crater
place
5 mentions
4 recordings
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 31 Jul
↑3 vs the 6 months before
Large asteroid impact site off the Yucatan Peninsula
Trend
Peak in the week of 28 Jul — 2 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentJeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Last Day of the Dinosaurs ☄️🦖 | The Extinction Th... · 1:02:57 · 31 Jul
…It is the third largest confirmed impact crater on Earth.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Last Day of the Dinosaurs ☄️🦖 | The Extinction Th... · 1:02:11 · 31 Jul
…The peak ring of the Chicxulub crater, long hidden under layers of later sediment, was rediscovered by scientific drilling projects in 2016 and is one of the strongest lines of evidence for exactly how the crater formed.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · What Earth Was Like After the Dinosaurs Disappeared 🌍 | B... · 2:19 · 11 Jul
…The crater left behind, now called the Chicxulub crater, named after a small town in Mexico near its centre stretched roughly 180 kilometres in diameter and was buried under subsequent layers of rock and ocean sediment for millions of years before scientists figured out it was there at all.…
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