It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs.

Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction event on the planet and ended the age of the dinosaurs.

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Impact: The End of the Age of the Dinosaurs is a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History

It looks at the impact of an asteroid strike on Earth 66 million years ago that wiped out most life, including the dinosaurs

The exhibition also explores how the Earth recovered from the event

“We’re pretty sure this was the worst day in the last half a billion years on Earth,” said Roger Benson, Macaulay curator of Dinosaur Paleobiology at the American Museum of Natural History.

The impact triggered earthquak

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