How big is the Chicxulub impactor?
10 km across · 6.2 mi
The dinosaur-ending asteroid is estimated at about ten kilometers wide.
Mount Everest 8.8 km
Chicxulub impactor 10 km
Compared with things you know
- The Chicxulub impactor is about 30× the height of the Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower: 330 m
- The Chicxulub impactor is about 12× the height of the Burj Khalifa Burj Khalifa: 828 m
- The Chicxulub impactor is about 7.8× the length of the Golden Gate Bridge main span Golden Gate Bridge main span: 1.3 km
- The Chicxulub impactor is about 1.1× the height of Mount Everest Mount Everest: 8.8 km
Think you could size it by eye? The Chicxulub impactor is one of the objects in Sizedle.
Similar space
- Deimos 12.4 km across 7.7 mi
- Halley's Comet nucleus 15 km long 9.3 mi
- Olympus Mons 21.9 km tall 13.6 mi
- Phobos 22.2 km across 13.8 mi
- Meteor Crater 1.2 km across 3,937 ft
- Asteroid Ryugu 900 m across 2,953 ft