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 in Mexico. The crater is about 150 km wide. The asteroid itself was vaporized on impact.

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

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