This is a photograph of the Barringer Meteorite Crater near Winslow, Arizona. Th

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This is a photograph of the Barringer Meteorite Crater near Winslow, Arizona. This impact crater is nearly a mile in diameter. How does the size of the buried Chicxulub crater in the northern Yucatan compare to the size of the Barringer Meteorite Crater?

a. The diameter of the Chicxulub crater is about 1,000 times greater.

b. The diameter of the Chicxulub crater is about 2 times greater.    

c. The diameter of the Chicxulub crater is about 50 times greater.

d. The diameter of the Chicxulub crater is about 100 times greater.

e. The diameter of the Chicxulub crater is about 10 times greater

Explanation / Answer

b

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