Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was not alone | BBC News

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed.

A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West Africa creating a large crater during the same era.

It would have been a “catastrophic event”, the scientists said, causing a tsunami at least 800m high to tear across the Atlantic ocean.

They cannot date when it happened exactly, or say whether it came before or after the asteroid which left the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico - the one that ended the reign of the dinosaurs.

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[PublicityAndyt]

update about dinos before gta 6 is crazy

[Koobygus]

Astroid: " prepare for trouble"
Astroid 2: and make it double

[JulianEmdon]

And here we are fighting pathetic wars amongst ourselves while at any moment these asteroids are just waiting to take us out 🙄

[senorbah]

Those dinosaurs sure did have it rough!

[jay-t]

Madara: “What will you do about the second one?” ☝️ ☄️

[YamiYume]

Some badass T-rex was just surfing the 800m tsunami wave

[martynma]

Fingers crossed for another reboot this worlds gone wack 😂

[Time-to-play-truth]

News that isn’t war and economic collapse. Nice!

[dan-hh]

Was the second thing my mother in law?

[GermanEnigma]

When the asteroid splits into 2, one makes landfall and the other in the ocean, there will be nowhere left to hide.

[lessamsung]

84 metres is easy enough depth for a wave to build over several miles to a height of 800 metres

[Ceasefirerightnow]

Flat earthers would still say the earth is flat after seeing this

[Gray-zibp]

What about the one less than 13000 years ago the big asteroid..

[CriticalcritiC]

That crater is actually a hollow tree stump before everything ended up being smaller

[machogrande]

There was no Atlantic ocean 75 million years ago

[loginmyjobs]

I guess Chandler Bing was indeed a dinosaur.

[sydclark]

Old news
A guy on Joe Rogan said this happened (years ago)

[ramman]

What about the fragment that hit Germany as well, that could be linked to the second hit

[zapfanzapfan]

Could you maybe show the geophysical data instead of b-roll of other places?

[TheLondonTransportDroid]

If only we could engineer dinosaurs back to life like Jurassic Park