How wide was the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs?
10,000 mAbout 32,808 ft · Land-sized
About 10 km across.
A red kangaroo would need about 1,200 hops (8 m each) to cover it.
☄️10,000 m
🌊Angel Falls
To scale: the dinosaur-killing asteroid is about 10× bigger than Angel Falls.
Things about the same size
- How thick is Earth's crust under the oceans?7,000 m
- How tall is K2?8,611 m
- How tall is Mount Everest?8,849 m
- How tall is Mauna Kea, measured from the sea floor?10,210 m
- How deep is the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the ocean?10,935 m
- How high do passenger jets fly?11,000 m
- How deep is the Kola Superdeep Borehole?12,262 m
- How wide is the Strait of Gibraltar at its narrowest?14,300 m
Many real things vary in size, so we use a typical or official figure. Spotted a mistake? Email [email protected].