Eli5: How have we not found the 10km wide asteroid which wiped out the dinosaurs? Shouldn’t we have at least found a crater?
In: Earth Science
It’s strange that you’re interested enough to post this but you’ve never googled [“meteor that killed the dinosaurs”](https://i.imgur.com/m30lAO9.png). Shouldn’t you at least be asking “ELI5: *have* we found the crater?” Like, how did you conclude that we *haven’t* found the crater, *without* googling that?
Without even having to click on any of the search results, you get this right at the top:
>Chicxulub
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>The crater left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is located in the Yucatán Peninsula. It is called Chicxulub after a nearby town. Part of the crater is offshore and part of it is on land. The crater is buried beneath many layers of rock and sediment.
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