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Astronomers say they may have discovered the origin of this asteroid, which ended the era of dinosaurs that lived on Earth millions of years ago.

The British newspaper, The Independent, in a report on the cause of the end of the dinosaur era from the face of the earth, said that astronomers hit an asteroid 66 million years ago and created a large crater called the “Six Sholop.”

Scientists have explained that the asteroid is 6 miles wide (about 10.8 km) and struck Earth 66 million years ago, which led to the conclusion The era of the dinosaurs At the Earth’s surface, it lasted about 180 million years.

Scientists believe that the asteroid that hit the Earth at the time was the cause of what is known as the “Sixth Gorge”, linking the researchers’ conclusion. Dinosaurs.

• The crater is now located on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

Scientists were able to study samples of ancient rock remains and fossils in the region, and concluded that their components were similar to those of 3 percent of the asteroids that fall to Earth.

The newspaper pointed out that scientists had discovered from their research that the asteroid that struck Earth had exited from the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.

Answer: “Asteroids Those with a diameter of more than 10 km deviate from this path and hit the Earth once every 250 million years, which is 10 times the rate previously predicted by scientists.