Yucatan Peninsula impact crater in Podcasts
placeA geological formation in Mexico where the asteroid impact crater is located, approximately 110 miles across
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The Day The Dinosaurs Died
The asteroid impact happens 1,500 miles away from here, off the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now Mexico. It blasts a crater in the Earth's crust that's about 110 miles across by 12 miles deep. So that's roughly the size of Massachusetts, say.