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    When did the last asteroid big enough to wipe out one or more species strike Earth?

    Question #127776. Asked by mdurnanj. (Nov 13 12 6:43 PM)


    Dave42007

    		The one I know of is the one that created the Chicxulub crater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater 65 million years ago in the Yucatan peninsula. This is the asteroid believed to caused (at least in part) the extinction of the dinosaurs.

    Nov 13 12, 7:12 PM

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