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The Chicxulub Impact

By: Josslyn Wellck, Journalist
Over sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit just off the coast of what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico. The dust spread worldwide, blotting out sunlight and lowering temperatures for years, resulting in mass extinction.
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"Dinosaur" by shvmoz is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

The Day The Dinosaurs Died

By: Elvis Pham, Journalist
Once it makes contact into the shallow ocean and the bedrock below, the energy with the strength of billions of nuclear weapons will be released all at once as the asteroid vaporizes, then a giant bright white sphere would grow over the Gulf of Mexico. The thermal radiation from the explosion would travel at the speed of light which would burn everything within a radius of about 1500 kilometers in a second.
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