Chicxulub, Yucatan, appears in the End of the World 2012 Movie, Kindle, and Book
This shaded relief image of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula show a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the Cretatious-Tertiary Extinction, the event 65 million years ago that marked the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs as well as the majority of life then on Earth.This image was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Lab of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA03379. Image retrieved from Wikipedia Commons.
Chicxulub, presently a sleepy fishing village in Yucatan, makes an appearance in the End of the World 2012 Movie, Kindle EBook, and book. It is the site where, 65 million years ago, a six-mile-wide meteor hit the earth leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Chixculub appears in the End of the World 2012 series it that part of the movie/book in which we examine if the world can really end. What do you think? Can the world really end?
The crater is more than 180 km (110 mi) in diameter, making the feature one of the largest confirmed impact structures on Earth; the impacting bolide that formed the crater was at least 10 km (6 mi) in diameter.
