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Chicxulub, Yucatán and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

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Difference between Chicxulub, Yucatán and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

Chicxulub, Yucatán vs. Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

Chicxulub (Ch’ik Xulub) is a town, and surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Yucatán. The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago.

Similarities between Chicxulub, Yucatán and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

Chicxulub, Yucatán and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event have 8 things in common (in Unionpedia): Asteroid, Chicxulub crater, Chicxulub impactor, Comet, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Dinosaur, Mexico, Yucatán Peninsula.

Asteroid

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.

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Chicxulub crater

The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

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Chicxulub impactor

The Chicxulub impactor, also known as the K/Pg impactor and (more speculatively) as the Chicxulub asteroid, was an asteroid in diameter which struck the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous, approximately 66 million years ago, creating the Chicxulub crater.

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Comet

A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.

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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Yucatán Peninsula

The Yucatán Peninsula (Península de Yucatán), in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel.

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Chicxulub, Yucatán and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event Comparison

Chicxulub, Yucatán has 21 relations, while Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event has 269. As they have in common 8, the Jaccard index is 2.76% = 8 / (21 + 269).

References

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