article_snippet.sent: The core Researchers hope to retrieve will allow Researchers to look back in time 10 million to 15 million years into the past.
article_snippet.sent: It could help uncover exactly what happened to create the crater - and if It killed off the dinosaurs.
article_snippet.sent: UK researchers studied the asteroid impact 66 million years ago (illustration shown).
article_snippet.sent: When the six-mile-wide (10km) asteroid hit what is now Mexico approximately 66 million years ago, dinosaurs were experiencing environmental upheaval, which left dinosaurs vulnerable.
article_snippet.sent: A team of researchers recreated the immense energy that would have been released from the asteroid impact 66 million years ago.
article_snippet.sent: Dinosaurs might have survived the asteroid strike that led to Dinosaurs extinction if it had come slightly earlier or later in history, scientists said.
article_snippet.sent: But when the six-mile-wide (10km) asteroid hit what is now Mexico approximately 66 million years ago, dinosaurs were experiencing environmental upheaval, which left dinosaurs vulnerable.
article_snippet.sent: a study looked at an updated catalogue of dinosaur fossils, mostly from North America.
article_snippet.sent: If the asteroid impact had come a few million years earlier, when the range of species was bigger and food chains more robust, a study may have survived, according to a study.
article_snippet.sent: This flips us understanding of the effects of the impact on its head and means that paleontologists may need to look for new clues from fossils found a long way from the impact to better understand the mass extinction event.'
article_snippet.sent: This has allowed a step forward in the debate surrounding the end Cretaceous impact and will help Geoscientists interpret the fossil record and evaluate potential future impacts. '
highlights_snippet.sent: UK researchers studied the asteroid impact 66 million years ago .
  