When Space Attacks — 💥 — New Details on the Dino-busting Asteroid
A spike mountain of rock taller than Mount Everest shot up at the center of the 12-mile deep crater, held its perch as the highest place on Earth, and then collapsed after a few minutes!
The new data comes from a $10M project that extracted a core sample from 1500-ft. below the seafloor base of Chicxulub crater.
“Drilling into the seafloor off Mexico, scientists have extracted a unique geologic record of the single worst day in the history of life on Earth, when a city-sized asteroid smashed into the planet 65 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs and three-quarters of all other life.”
“The sediments also offer chemical evidence that the cataclysm blew hundreds of billions of tons of sulfur from pulverized ocean rock into the atmosphere, triggering a global winter in which temperatures world-wide dropped by as much as 30 degrees Fahrenheit for decades”
P.S. B612 aims to divert the next one: https://b612foundation.org (FD: I am a supporter)
Neil Armstrong: Earth is “so small… and, compared with all the other celestial objects — which, in many cases, are much more massive, more terrifying — it looks like it couldn’t put up a very good defense against a celestial onslaught.” (2001 interview at JSC)
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