Eli5: How have we not found the 10km wide asteroid which wiped out the dinosaurs? Shouldn’t we have at least found a crater?

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Eli5: How have we not found the 10km wide asteroid which wiped out the dinosaurs? Shouldn’t we have at least found a crater?

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We have. It’s called the Chicxulub Crater in the yukitan peninsula.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater

Why does it not LOOK like what you’re used to thinking about with a crater on the moon or something similiar? It’s had about 66 million years of erosion, etc to reshape it.

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