{"id":126088,"date":"2021-08-11T02:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T09:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/scientists-find-origin-of-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs"},"modified":"2021-08-11T02:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T09:23:45","slug":"scientists-find-origin-of-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/scientists-find-origin-of-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find origin of asteroid that killed the dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-origin-of-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/astronomers\">Astronomers<\/a> believe that they have discovered the origin of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/asteroid\">asteroid<\/a> that wiped out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/dinosaurs\">dinosaurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The six mile-wide asteroid which struck the Earth 66 million years ago and ended the 180 million year-long reign of the dinosaurs, was the cause of what is known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/chicxulub\">Chicxulub<\/a> events. It landed in what is now the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and formed the Chicxulub crater.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/scientists\">Scientists<\/a> had examined the remains of the ancient rock through the samples on the Earth and within drill cores, which revealed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/debris\">debris<\/a> came from a carbonaceous chondrite class of meteorites \u2013 some of the most pristine material in the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/solar-system\">solar system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers believe that they have discovered the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. The six mile-wide asteroid which struck the Earth 66 million years ago and ended the 180 million year-long reign of the dinosaurs, was the cause of what is known as a Chicxulub events. It landed in what is now [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}