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A scientist discovers a deep bowl-like divot under the ocean off the coast of eastern Mexico that is many kilometers across. The layers of the ground all around the continent from around the time that structure formed contain large amounts of iridium and a larger number of fossils than is normally found. What most likely caused the bowl-like structure?

a meteorite impact

an asteroid impact

an iridium spike

a Kuiper object impact

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answer is an ASTEROID

Explanation:

Iridium is a material that forms at very high temperatures, which is why its presence shows that in the impact zone the temperature rose a lot, so we can imagine that the impact was by a body traveling at high speed, which is consistent with a body that comes from space.

An asteroid is a celestial body of some size that when entering the atmosphere heats up and collides with the Earth, leaving a crater that in general is much larger than the diameter of the object.

A meteorite is a small fraction of an asteroid that has been separated by the pressure of the sun, the attraction of the Earth, Moon or another massive body or a combination of these effects, in general, meteorites are small and when they enter the atmosphere They are consumed by heat and very few reach the surface of the Earth, those that do reach are very small.

Therefore due to the size of the crater and the existence of many dead animals around the body must have been very heavy, so the correct answer is an ASTEROID