- Anton P Nym
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- Exalted Mythic Member
To the best of my knowledge, the biggest suspect for the dino-killer impact is in the Carribean, off the Yucatan coast. (Bungie went with that one when they set their Pathways into Darkness game there; thrown in just as a neat Bungie connection.) There's still reasonable doubt that it was the cause of the great extinction that left us dinosaur-less today, though, so let's remain open-minded on that.
The "new" crater discovered (and covered in the news, anyway) that I'd heard of is in Antarctica, under all that glacier ice... but it's supposed to be much older than the Yucatan one.
One fan found a small crater south of Mt. Kilimanjaro that's roughly three miles across... which matches Frankie's description of how big the Forerunner artifact was in the Halo 3 teaser-trailer. However, there's considerable debate as to whether that's the "actual" location or not; again, it's best to stay open-minded on this.
Either way, the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago; the Halos (in the game, he said, trying to keep fiction and fact as separate as possible) fired 100 thousand years ago. I'm guessing that the two events are entirely separate.
-- Steve's hoping that clears things up a bit.