Dinosaur Looking Up At Approaching Asteroid

A video illustrating what happened to the dinosaurs when the asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, also shows how it would pan out for humans if the event took place today. The video posted on YouTube by Melodysheep explains the terrifying fate faced by the dinosaurs when the asteroid hit what is now the Yucatn Peninsula in Mexico.

An artist's rendering of Chicxulub, the asteroid believed to have wiped out large dinosaurs and reshaped parts of the world. ElenartsiStock No one could have seen the catastrophe coming.

In a warm, humid forest clearing, the Tyrannosaurus rex was calmly chewing on the carcass of a duck-billed dinosaur, when a small white light appeared in the sky. The light grew larger and larger, until it became blinding the dinosaur never finished its lunch. Approximately 66 million years ago, an asteroid nearly 10 kilometers 6.2 miles across hit the Earth near what is now the Yucatan

Artist's impression of an asteroid approaching Earth. The Chicxulub impactor is thought to have triggered a cascade of events that lead to the demise of the dinosaurs.

This study marks the first time the approach has been used to look at dinosaurs and over a large scale, Dean said. A paleontologist is seen here prospecting for dinosaur fossils in North American

The asteroid that is believed to have killed off the dinosaurs impacted Earth 66 million years ago between the Cretaceous and Paleogene eras, known as the K-Pg boundary.

The asteroid that sealed the dinosaurs' fate at the end of the Cretaceous struck at an angle that was the worst-case scenario for life on Earth. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu

The answer is yes for a few nights prior to the impact assuming they had eyes with a similar sensitivity to our own and could look up!. It could be a bit longer than this if the body was larger than 10 km it goes up roughly in proportion to the impactor's radius and could be much longer if the object was a cometary body or had a very high albedo.

The tiniest of changes to an asteroid's orbit, say, from uneven surface heating due to slight color changes across the face of the asteroid, can lead to wildly different orbits if they take it

quotThe asteroid impact was so great that there was no place on the surface of the Earth that was truly safe,quot author Riley Black wrote in the book quotThe Last Days of the Dinosaurs An Asteroid