
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!!!!