Chicxulub (pronounced as CHEEK-shoe-lube) is a town in the state of Yucatán, Mexico, located at 21°14′ N 89°51′ W (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=21_14_N_89_51_W_type:city(3,400)) In 2000 the town had a population of about 3,400 people. A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ... Mexico is divided into 31 states (estados) and 1 Federal District (Distrito Federal), which contains the capital, Mexico City. ... The Yucatán Peninsula separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico. ... The United Mexican States or Mexico (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered to the north by the United States of America, to the southeast by Guatemala and Belize, to... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Chicxulub is most famous for being the location where geologists first discovered a crater left by the impact of a huge meteorite some 65 million years ago that may have caused the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event; see Chicxulub Crater for more detailed discussion. A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology. ... Worlds second largest Meteorite in Culiacan, Mexico A meteorite is a relatively small extra-terrestrial body that reaches the Earths surface. ... The Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction event, also known as the KT boundary (from German: Kreide-Tertiär-Grenzschicht), was a period of massive extinction of species, about 65. ... Radar topography reveals the 180 kilometer (112 mile) wide ring of the crater (image courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech) Chicxulub Crater is an ancient impact crater buried underneath the Yucatan peninsula, with its center located approximately underneath the town of Chicxulub, Yucat n, Mexico. ...