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.

The asteroid impact led to the extinction of 75% of life, including all non-avian dinosaurs. 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.

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