{"id":1691,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/second-meteor-crashed-into-earth-at-the-same-time-as-dinosaur-killer-asteroid\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","slug":"second-meteor-crashed-into-earth-at-the-same-time-as-dinosaur-killer-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/second-meteor-crashed-into-earth-at-the-same-time-as-dinosaur-killer-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"Second meteor crashed into Earth at the same time as dinosaur-killer asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-10-04 16:19:11<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was not alone.<BR><br \/>\nScientists in Scotland have established that the Nadir crater discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in 2022 was left behind by a meteor that collided with the Earth alongside the dinosaur-slaying space rock that left behind a 200m crater in Mexico.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Uisdean Nicholson, leader of the research at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, thinks that the asteroid would have crashed into the planet at a speed of 72,000km per hour and caused an 800m high tsunami across the ocean.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;We originally thought that the asteroid would have been around 400m wide. We now think it was 450-500m wide, because of the larger crater size as shown by the 3D data.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We can tell it came from about 20-40 degrees to the northeast, because of spiralling thrust-generated ridges surrounding the crater&#8217;s central peak &#8211; those are only formed following a low-angle oblique impact.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;And we think it would have hit Earth at about 20km per second, or 72,000km per hour, although we still need to confirm this with a new set of impact models.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-10-04 16:19:11 The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was not alone. Scientists in Scotland have established that the Nadir crater discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}