CHICXLUB CRATER

where?

the chicxulub crater was buried under the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. it is center located at the town of Chicxulub,  where they named the town after the crater - as well as the translation of the mayan name, "the tail of the devil."
 

who???

the crater was discovered by Glen Penfield who was a geophysicist   had been working in Yucatan for oil during the late 1970s.

What??

the chicxulub crater is an ancient crater. recent evidence suggests that it was a huge asteroid that broke up in a collision in distance space more than 160 million years ago!!!!