Experts will cut through the tunnel in the crater Chicxulub to find rocks that will shed light on the extinction of the dinosaurs. Finding may help to establish proof or a refutation of the fact that the dinosaurs became extinct in consequence of the fall of the asteroid.
It is expected that the drilling of the tunnel in the Chicxulub crater found in Mexico, will begin in 2016, says the Daily Mail. All work will take 2 months. Upon its completion, the experts would get from a depth of 1.5 kilometers prototype of the core, which will be divided into 2 parts - 1 explore scientific workers from the United States, and the other Ropazi.
Scientists expect to find in the rocks of unusual organisms that were present after the collision of a meteorite with the earth. Therefore, the finding can help establish proof or a refutation of the fact that the dinosaurs became extinct in consequence of the fall of the asteroid.
The dinosaurs over hundreds of million years dominated the planet. According to the famous conjecture, they died out in consequence of the configuration of the weather conditions that were caused by the fall of an asteroid that crashed on the planet some 65 million years ago. The diameter of the foreign body was about 14 km.
At the crash site emerged crater, which was later flooded by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Professionals hope that its diameter is about 180 km and a depth of 20 km.
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