Terrestrial target and melting site of Libyan Desert Glass: New evidence from trace elements and Sr isotopes
Giampaolo P. Sighinolfi, Federico Lugli, Federica Piccione, Vincenzo DE Michele, Anna Cipriani Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 04 September 2020 LINK “Strontium isotopes and selected trace elements (Rb, Sr, REE, Zr, Hf, Th,…
The Role of Meteorite Impacts in the Origin of LifeOPEN ACCESS
G.R. Osinski, C.S. Cockell, A. Pontefract, and H.M. Sapers AstrobiologyReview articlePublished Online: 1 Sep 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The conditions, timing, and setting for the origin of life on Earth and whether…
Impact heat driven volatile redistribution at Occator crater on Ceres as a comparative planetary processOPEN ACCESS
P. Schenk, J. Scully, D. Buczkowski, H. Sizemore, B. Schmidt, C. Pieters, A. Neesemann, D. O’Brien, S. Marchi, D. Williams, A. Nathues, M. De Sanctis, F. Tosi, C. T. Russell, J. Castillo-Rogez & C. Raymond…
Assessing the survivability of biomarkers within terrestrial material impacting the lunar surfaceOPEN ACCESS
Samuel H. Halim, Ian A. Crawford, Gareth S. Collins, Katherine H. Joy, Thomas M. Davison IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 6 August 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • Large impacts on Earth can eject…
The Ries-Steinheim crater pair and two major earthquakes – New discoveries challenging the double-impact theoryOPEN ACCESS
Elmar Buchner, Volker Sach, Martin Schmieder Naturepreprint, under reviewPosted 27 Jul, 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Nördlinger Ries and the Steinheim Basin are widely perceived as a Middle Miocene impact crater doublet. We…
Effect of impact shock on extremophilic Halomonas gomseoemensis EP-3 isolated from hypersaline sulphated lake Laguna de Peña Hueca, Spain
R. Thombre, F. Gomez, R. Parkhe, K. Kaur, P. Vaishampayan, E. Shivakarthik, B. Sivaraman, R.Perumal, N. Mason Planetary and Space ScienceAvailable online 26 July 2020, 105041 LINK “Highlights • First report on effect of shock…
Modeling the chronologies and size distributions of Ceres and Vesta cratersOPEN ACCESS
Fernando Roig, David Nesvorný Submitted to AJ LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “We infer the crater chronologies of Ceres and Vesta from a self-consistent dynamical model of asteroid impactors. The model accounts for planetary migration/instability early in…
Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system immediately before the Cryogenian period revealed by KAGUYAOPEN ACCESS
Kentaro Terada, Tomokatsu Morota & Mami Kato Nature Communications, Volume 11, Article number: 3453 (2020) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteoroid bombardment of the Earth-Moon system must have caused catastrophic damage to the terrestrial ecosphere….
A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impactOPEN ACCESS
G. S. Collins, N. Patel, T. M. Davison, A. S. P. Rae, J. V. Morgan, S. P. S. Gulick, G. L. Christeson, E. Chenot, P. Claeys, C. S. Cockell, M. J. L. Coolen, L. Ferrière,…
Ramgarh, Rajasthan, India: A 10 km diameter complex impact structureOPEN ACCESS
Thomas Kenkmann, Gerwin Wulf, Amar Agarwal Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst Published: 23 April 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Ramgarh structure is a morphological landmark in southeastern Rajasthan, India. Its 200 m high and…
Hypervelocity cratering and disruption of the Northwest Africa 4502 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite: Implications for crater production, catastrophic disruption, momentum transfer and dust production on asteroids
George J. Flynn, Daniel D. Durda, Mason J. Molesky, Brian A. May, Spenser N. Congram, Colleen L. Loftus, Jacob R. Reagan, Melissa M. Strait, Robert J. Macke Planetary and Space ScienceIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available…
Formation of Libyan Desert Glass: Numerical simulations of melting of silica due to radiation from near‐surface airbursts
Vladimir Svetsov, Valery Shuvalov, Igor Kosarev Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 26 March 2020 LINK “Libyan Desert Glass contains meteoritic material and, therefore, its origin is most likely associated with an impact event. However,…
Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria at the Younger Dryas Onset (~12.8 ka): High-temperature melting at >2200 °COPEN ACCESS
Andrew M. T. Moore, James P. Kennett, William M. Napier, Ted E. Bunch, James C. Weaver, Malcolm LeCompte, A. Victor Adedeji, Paul Hackley, Gunther Kletetschka, Robert E. Hermes, James H. Wittke, Joshua J. Razink, Michael…
Sr-Nd-Pb isotope systematics of Australasian tektites: Implications for the nature and composition of target materials and possible volatile loss of Pb
Lukáš Ackerman, Karel Žák, Roman Skála, Jan Rejšek, Šárka Křížová, Josh Wimpenny, Tomáš Magna Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta LINK “The Australasian tektite (AAT) strewn field is the largest strewn field on the Earth with about…
Dwell time at high pressure of meteorites during impact ejection from Mars
T.J. Bowling, B.C. Johnson, S.E. Wiggins, E.L. Walton, H.J.Melosh, T.G. Sharp Icarus In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 13 February 2020 LINK “Highlights • We simulate impacts to investigate the dwell time of Martian meteorites….
Examining the compositions of impactors striking the Moon using Apollo impact melt coats and anorthositic regolith breccia meteorites
Eleanor C. McIntosh, James M.D. Day, Yang Liu, Courtney Jiskoot Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Available online 1 February 2020 LINK “Impactors striking the Moon since the formation of its crust have left an indelible imprint…
U‐Pb dating of zircons from an impact melt of the Nördlinger Ries crater
Winfried H. Schwarz, Michael Hanel, Mario Trieloff Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 27 January 2020 LINK “In situ U‐Pb measurements on zircons of the Ries impact crater are presented for three samples from the…
Determining the age and possibility for an extraterrestrial impact formation mechanism of the Ilumetsa structures (Estonia)OPEN ACCESS
A. Losiak, A. Jõeleht, J. Plado, M. Szyszka, K. Kirsimäe, E. M. Wild, P. Steier, C. M. Belcher, A. M. Jazwa, R. Helde Meteoritics & Planetary Science LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Ilumetsa…
Precise radiometric age establishes Yarrabubba, Western Australia, as Earth’s oldest recognised meteorite impact structureOPEN ACCESS
Timmons M. Erickson, Christopher L. Kirkland, Nicholas E. Timms, Aaron J. Cavosie & Thomas M. Davison Nature Communications 11 , 1–8 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The ~70 km-diameter Yarrabubba impact structure in Western…
Spatial U–Pb age distribution in shock-recrystallized zircon – a case study from the Rochechouart impact structure, France
Cornelia Rasmussen, Daniel F. Stockli, Timmons M. Erickson, Martin Schmieder Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta LINK “Age determination of impact structures via the zircon U–Pb system remains challenging and often ambiguous due to highly variable effects…
40Ar/39Ar systematics of melt lithologies and target rocks from the Gow Lake impact structure, Canada
A.E. Pickersgill, D.F. Mark, M.R. Lee, G.R. Osinski Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 21 January 2020 LINK “The age of the Gow Lake impact structure (Saskatchewan, Canada) is poorly constrained,…
Neutron activation analysis of meteorites at the VR-1 training reactor
Milan Stefanik, Martin Cesnek, Lubomir Sklenka, Tomas Kmjec, Marcel Miglierini Radiation Physics and Chemistry Volume 171, June 2020, 108675 LINK “Highlights • Applications of nuclear analytical techniques. • Neutron activation analysis and gamma-spectrometry in interdisciplinary…
Australasian impact crater buried under the Bolaven volcanic field, Southern LaosOPEN ACCESS
Kerry Sieh, Jason Herrin, Brian Jicha, Dayana Schonwalder Angel, James D. P. Moore, Paramesh Banerjee, Weerachat Wiwegwin, Vanpheng Sihavong, Brad Singer, Tawachai Chualaowanich, and Punya Charusiri PNAS first published December 30, 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)…
Analytical methodology to evaluate the Terrestrial Weathering of Libyan Desert Glasses and Darwin Glasses after their formation
Leticia Gómez-Nubla, Julene Aramendia, Silvia Fdez-Ortiz de Vallejuelo, Kepa Castro, Juan Manuel Madariaga Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry pp 1–9, First Online: 07 November 2019 LINK “Libyan Desert Glasses (LDGs) and Darwin Glasses (DGs) are impact…
Momentum transfer in hypervelocity cratering of meteorites and meteorite analogs: Implications for orbital evolution and kinetic impact deflection of asteroids
George J. Flynn, Daniel D. Durda, Mason J. Molesky, Brian A. May, Spenser N. Congram, Colleen L. Loftus, Jacob R. Reagan, Melissa M. Strait, Robert J. Macke International Journal of Impact Engineering Volume 136, February…
The Late Ordovician (Sandbian) Glasford structure: A marine‐target impact crater with a possible connection to the Ordovician meteorite event
Charles C. Monson, Dustin Sweet, Branimir Segvic, Giovanni Zanoni, Kyle Balling, Jacalyn M. Wittmer, G. Robert Ganis, Guo Cheng Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 15 October 2019 LINK “The Glasford structure in Illinois (USA)…
Critically testing olivine‐hosted putative martian biosignatures in the Yamato 000593 meteorite—Geobiological implications
Nicola McLoughlin, Eugene G. Grosch, Per Erik Vullum, Paul Guagliardo, Martin Saunders, David Wacey Geobiology. 2019; 00: 1– 17. LINK “On rocky planets such as Earth and Mars the serpentinization of olivine in ultramafic crust…
The age of Wolfe Creek meteorite crater (Kandimalal), Western Australia
Timothy T. Barrows, John Magee, Gifford Miller, L. Keith Fifield Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 1 September 2019 LINK “Wolfe Creek crater lies in northwestern Australia at the edge of the Great Sandy Desert….
A TEM and EELS study of carbon in a melt fragment from the Gardnos impact structureOPEN ACCESS
Paula Lindgren, Lydia Hallis, Fredrik S. Hage, Martin R. Lee, John Parnell, Anders Plan, Alistair Doye, Ian MacLaren Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 29 August 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A carbon‐rich…
Evidence for subsolidus quartz-coesite transformation in impact ejecta from the Australasian tektite strewn fieldOPEN ACCESS
Fabrizio Campanale, Enrico Mugnaioli, Luigi Folco, Mauro Gemmi, Martin R.Lee, Luke Daly, Billy P.Glass Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 21 August 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • SEM and μRaman…
Mid-infrared spectroscopy of laser-produced basalt melts for remote sensing application
Andreas Morlok, Christopher Hamann, Dayl Martin, Iris Weber, Katherine H.Joy, Harald Hiesinger, Roy Wogelius, Aleksandra Stojic, Joern Helbert Icarus Available online 7 August 2019 LINK “Highlights • Mid-Infrared spectroscopy of laser generated basaltic melts •…
Geological and geophysical studies of the Agoudal impact structure (Central High Atlas, Morocco): New evidence for crater size and age
Houda El Kerni, Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane, David Baratoux, Mohammed Aoudjehane, André Charrière, Hassan Ibouh, Pierre Rochette, Yoann Quesnel, Minoru Uehara, Thomas Kenkmann, Gerwin Wulf, Michael Poelchau, Van Binh Nguyen, Maria Aboulahris, Samira Makhoukhi, Georges Aumaître,…
Three-dimensional imaging of crack growth in L chondrites after high-velocity impact experimentsOPEN ACCESS
Tatsuhiro Michikami, Axel Hagermann, Akira Tsuchiyama, Hirotaka Yamaguchi, Terunori Irie, Keita Nomura, Osamu Sasaki, Michihiko Nakamura, Satoshi Okumura, Sunao Hasegawa Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 11 July 2019 LINK (OPEN…
Prebiotic Sugar Formation Under Nonaqueous Conditions and Mechanochemical AccelerationOPEN ACCESS
Saskia Lamour, Sebastian Pallmann, Maren Haas and Oliver Trapp Life 2019, 9(2), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/life9020052 Published: 20 June 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (download) “Monosaccharides represent one of the major building blocks of life. One of…
In situ U–Pb analysis of shocked zircon from the Charlevoix impact structure, Québec, Canada
Martin Schmieder, Barry J. Shaulis, Thomas J. Lapen, Elmar Buchner, David A. Kring Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 19 June 2019 LINK “Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS) U–Pb geochronology of shocked zircon…
Are hypervelocity impacts able to produce chondrule-like ejecta?
Clément Ganino, Guy Libourel, Akiko M. Nakamura, Patrick Michel Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 June 2019 LINK “Highlights • Silicate ejecta formed in impact experiment have several similarities with…
Survival of Extremotolerant Bacteria from the Mukundpura Meteorite Impact Crater
Rebecca S. Thombre, E. Shivakarthik, Bhalamurugan Sivaraman, Parag A. Vaishampayan, Arman Seuylemezian, J.K. Meka, S. Vijayan, P.P. Kulkarni, T. Pataskar, and B.S. Patil Astrobiology Vol. 19, No. 6, Pages: 785–796 Published Online: 11 Jun 2019…
Asteroid impact effects on Snowball EarthOPEN ACCESS
Christian Koeberl, Boris A. Ivanov Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 9 June 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Several Snowball Earth periods, in which the Earth has been (almost) totally glaciated, are known…
Identification of a meteoritic component using chromium isotopic composition of impact rocks from the Lonar impact structure, India
Berengere Mougel, Frederic Moynier, Christian Koeberl, Daniel Wielandt, Martin Bizzarro Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 9 June 2019 LINK “The existence of mass‐independent chromium isotope variability of nucleosynthetic origin in meteorites and their components…
Ultraprecise age and formation temperature of the Australasian tektites constrained by 40Ar/39Ar analyses
Fred Jourdan, Sebastien Nomade, Michael T. D. Wingate, Ela Eroglu, Al Deino Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 29 May 2019 LINK “The Australasian tektites are quench melt glass ejecta particles distributed over the Asian,…
An Early Jurassic age for the Puchezh‐Katunki impact structure (Russia) based on 40Ar/39Ar data and palynology
S. Holm‐Alwmark, C. Alwmark, L. Ferrière, S. Lindström, M. M. M. Meier, A. Scherstén, M. Herrmann, V. L. Masaitis, M. S. Mashchak, M. V. Naumov, F. Jourdan Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 29 May…
Overestimation of threat from 100 Mt–class airbursts? High-pressure evidence from zircon in Libyan Desert Glass
Aaron J. Cavosie, Christian Koeberl Geology (2019) LINK “Atmospheric airbursts over Russia at Chelyabinsk in 2013 and Tunguska in 1908 provide dramatic examples of hazards posed by near-Earth objects (NEOs). These two events produced 0.5…
Australites. Part 2: early Aboriginal perception and useOPEN ACCESS
Philip A. Clarke JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE, 22 (1), 155-178 (2019) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “This paper reviews the Indigenous perception and use of australites as recorded in the Australian ethnographic literature. Aboriginal people…
Multiwavelength observations of a bright impact flash during the 2019 January total lunar eclipse
José M Madiedo, José L Ortiz, Nicolás Morales, Pablo Santos-Sanz Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 486, Issue 3, July 2019, Pages 3380–3387 Published: 27 April 2019 LINK “We discuss here a lunar…
Geology of the Morasko craters, Poznań, Poland—Small impact craters in unconsolidated sediments
M. Szokaluk, R. Jagodziński, A. Muszyński, W. Szczuciński Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 21 April 2019 LINK “Confirmed small impact craters in unconsolidated deposits are rare on Earth, and only a few have been…
In search of historical roots of the meteorite impact theory: Franz von Paula Gruithuisen as the first proponent of an impact cratering model for the Moon in the 1820s
Grzegorz Racki, Christian Koeberl Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 28 March 2019 LINK “Franz von Paula Gruithuisen (1774–1852), the Bavarian medic, physician, and astronomer, enfant terrible of German science, is known for his insightful…
Sedimentary record from Patagonia, southern Chile supports cosmic-impact triggering of biomass burning, climate change, and megafaunal extinctions at 12.8 kaOPEN ACCESS
Mario Pino,Ana M. Abarzúa,Giselle Astorga,Alejandra Martel-Cea,Nathalie Cossio-Montecinos,R. Ximena Navarro,Maria Paz Lira,Rafael Labarca,Malcolm A. LeCompte,Victor Adedeji,Christopher R. Moore,Ted E. Bunch,Charles Mooney,Wendy S. Wolbach,Allen West & James P. Kennett Scientific Reports 9, 1–27 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF…
Libyan Desert Glass area in western Egypt: Shocked quartz in bedrock points to a possible deeply eroded impact structure in the regionOPEN ACCESS
Christian Koeberl, Ludovic Ferrière Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 10 March 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) is an enigmatic natural glass, about 28.5 million years old, which occurs…
Petrography and geochemistry of the impact to postimpact transition layer at the El’gygytgyn impact structure in Chukotka, Arctic RussiaOPEN ACCESS
Karin Maierhofer, Christian Koeberl, Julie Brigham‐Grette Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 3 March 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The 3.6 Ma El’gygytgyn impact structure, located in northeast Chukotka in Arctic Russia, was…
Pantasma: Evidence for a Pleistocene circa 14 km diameter impact crater in Nicaragua
P. Rochette, R. Alaç, P. Beck, G. Brocard, A. J. Cavosie, V. Debaille, B. Devouard, F. Jourdan, B. Mougel, F. Moustard, F. Moynier, S. Nomade, G. R. Osinski, B. Reynard, J. Cornec Meteoritics & Planetary…
Location, orbit and energy of a meteoroid impacting the moon during the Lunar Eclipse of January 21, 2019OPEN ACCESS
Jorge I. Zuluaga [SEAP/IF/UdeA],Pablo A. Cuartas-Restrepo [SEAP/IF/UdeA],Jonathan Ospina [SCLUB/SAA],Fritz Pichardo [ASTRODOM],Sergio A. Lopez [SCLUB/SAA],Karls Pena [ASTRODOM],J. Mauricio Gaviria-Posada [Obs.LaLoma] Submitted to Icarus Update (12 December 2019): replaced and accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (OPEN…
Earth and Moon impact flux increased at the end of the Paleozoic
Sara Mazrouei, Rebecca R. Ghent, William F. Bottke, Alex H. Parker, Thomas M. Gernon Science 18 Jan 2019:Vol. 363, Issue 6424, pp. 253-257DOI: 10.1126/science.aar4058 LINK “The terrestrial impact crater record is commonly assumed to be…
Shocked quartz in polymict impact breccia from the Upper Cretaceous Yallalie impact structure in Western Australia
Morgan A. Cox, Aaron J. Cavosie, Ludovic Ferrière, Nicholas E. Timms, Phil A. Bland, Katarina Miljković, Timmons M. Erickson, Brian Hess Meteoritics & Planetary Sciencedoi:10.1111/maps.13238 LINK “Yallalie is a ~12 km diameter circular structure located…
A Paleozoic age for the Tunnunik impact structure
Camille Lepaulard, Jérôme Gattacceca, Nicholas Swanson‐Hysell, Yoann Quesnel, François Demory, Gordon R. Osinski Meteoritics & Planetary Science doi:10.1111/maps.13239 LINK “We report paleomagnetic directions from the target rocks of the Tunnunik impact structure, as well as…
Probabilistic Assessment of Tunguska-scale Asteroid ImpactsOPEN ACCESS
F. Wheeler, Donovan L. Mathias Icarus Available online 6 December 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • The PAIR model is used to assess 50 million Tunguska-scale asteroid impacts with probabilistically distributed properties….
Maohokite, a post‐spinel polymorph of MgFe2O4 in shocked gneiss from the Xiuyan crater in ChinaOPEN ACCESS
Ming Chen, Jinfu Shu, Xiande Xie, Dayong Tan Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 30 November 2018 LINK “Maohokite, a post‐spinel polymorph of MgFe2O4, was found in shocked gneiss from the Xiuyan crater in China….
The Impact Effect Calculator of Celestial Body Impacts to the Earth: The Constructor of Hazardous Orbits
S. A. Naroenkov, D. O. Glazachev, A. P. Kartashova, O. P. Popova I. S. Turuntaev Solar System Research November 2018, Volume 52, Issue 6, pp 534–546 LINK Original Russian Text © S.A. Naroenkov, D.O. Glazachev,…
Heterogeneity of melts in impact deposits and implications for their origin (Ries suevite, Germany)
Susann Siegert, Lutz Hecht Meteoritics & Planetary Science doi.org/10.1111/maps.13210 LINK “Impact melt‐bearing clastic deposits (suevites) are one of the most important records of the impact cratering process. A deeper understanding of their composition and formation…
Shock conditions recorded in NWA 8159 martian augite basalt with implications for the impact cratering history on Mars
Tom G. Sharp, Erin L. Walton, Jinping Hu, Carl Agee Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 24 November 2018 LINK “NWA 8159 is an augite-rich martian basalt, formed by cooling of…
A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest GreenlandOPEN ACCESS
Kurt H. Kjær, Nicolaj K. Larsen, Tobias Binder, Anders A. Bjørk, Olaf Eisen, Mark A. Fahnestock, Svend Funder, Adam A. Garde, Henning Haack, Veit Helm, Michael Houmark-Nielsen, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Shfaqat A. Khan,Horst Machguth, Iain…
Evidence for a large Paleozoic Impact Crater Strewn Field in the Rocky Mountains
Thomas Kenkmann, Kent A. Sundell & Douglas Cook Scientific Reports volume 8, Article number: 13246 (2018) LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (DOWNLOAD) “The Earth is constantly bombarded by meteoroids of various sizes. During hypervelocity collisions a…
Context matters – Ar–Ar results from in and around the Manicouagan Impact Structure, Canada: Implications for martian meteorite chronology
Steven J. Jaret, Sidney R. Hemming, E. Troy Rasbury, Lucy M. Thompson, Timothy D. Glotch, Jahandar Ramezani, John G. Spray Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 501, 1 November 2018, Pages 78-89 LINK “Highlights •…
An impact melt origin for Earth’s oldest known evolved rocks
Tim E. Johnson, Nicholas J. Gardiner, Katarina Miljković, Christopher J. Spencer, Christopher L. Kirkland, Phil A. Bland & Hugh Smithies Nature Geoscience, Aug 13, 2018 LINK PDF “Earth’s oldest evolved (felsic) rocks, the 4.02-billion-year-old Idiwhaa…
Summanen, a new meteorite impact structure in Central FinlandOPEN ACCESS
Jüri Plado, Satu Hietala, Timmu Kreitsmann, Jouni Lerssi, Jari Nenonen, Lauri J. Pesonen Meteorit Planet Sci. doi:10.1111/maps.13134 First published: 25 June 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The Summanen structure (62°39.0′N, 25°22.5′E) is located within the Paleoproterozoic…
The Meteorite from Steinheim, SW Germany: Probably a Pallasite
Buchner E. *, Hölzel M., Schmieder M., Ferrière L., Koeberl C., Rasser M., Fietzke J., Frische M., Meier M. M. M., Busemann H., Maden C., Kutterolf S. 81st Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 2018…
Spectroscopic features of ultrahigh-pressure impact glasses of the Kara astroblemeOPEN ACCESS
T. G. Shumilova, V. P. Lutoev, S. I. Isaenko, N. S. Kovalchuk, B. A. Makeev, A. Yu. Lysiuk, A. A. Zubov & K. Ernstson Scientific Reports Volume 8, Article number: 6923 (2018) doi:10.1038/s41598-018-25037-z LINK (OPEN…
Australites. Part 1: Aboriginal involvement in their discoveryOPEN ACCESS
Philip A. Clarke JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE, 21 (2&3), 115-133 (2018) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “European scholars first believed that australites had been formed either volcanically or through lightning strikes, but they later recognised…
The delivery of water by impacts from planetary accretion to presentOPEN ACCESS
R. Terik Daly, Peter H. Schultz Science Advances 25 Apr 2018: Vol. 4, no. 4, eaar2632 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar2632 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Dynamical models and observational evidence indicate that water-rich asteroids and comets…
Projectile preservation during oblique hypervelocity impacts
Daly, R. T. and Schultz, P. H. Meteorit Planet Sci. . doi:10.1111/maps.13081 LINK “Impact angle plays a significant role in determining the fate of the projectile. In this study, we use a suite of hypervelocity…
Towards a theoretical determination of the geographical probability distribution of meteoroid impacts on EarthOPEN ACCESS
Jorge I. Zuluaga, Mario Sucerquia Accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) update (15 March 2018 ): LINK “Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impact events occurred inside a geographical area of only 3.4% of the Earth’s…
A new type of highly-vaporized microtektite from the Transantarctic MountainsOPEN ACCESS
M. Van Ginneken, M.J. Genge, R.P. Harvey Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 6 March 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report on the discovery of microtektites (microscopic impact…
An experimental model for the tektite fluvial transport based on the most distal Polish moldavite occurrences
Brachaniec, T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.13035 LINK “Reworking and redeposition of tektites is a highly complex and multistage geological process including many factors. A tumbling experiment was therefore undertaken with the aim of…
New clues from Earth’s most elusive impact crater: Evidence of reidite in Australasian tektites from Thailand
Aaron J. Cavosie; Nicholas E. Timms; Timmons M. Erickson; Christian Koeberl Geology (2017) https://doi.org/10.1130/G39711.1 Published:December 20, 2017 LINK “Australasian tektites are enigmatic drops of siliceous impact melt found in an ~8000 × ~13,000 km strewn…
Discovery of a meteoritic ejecta layer containing unmelted impactor fragments at the base of Paleocene lavas, Isle of Skye, ScotlandOPEN ACCESS
Simon M. Drake; Andrew D. Beard; Adrian P. Jones; David J. Brown; A. Dominic Fortes; Ian L. Millar; Andrew Carter;Jergus Baca; Hilary Downes Geology (2017) DOI:https://doi.org/10.1130/G39452.1 Published: December 12, 2017 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN…
Australasian microtektites: Impactor identification using Cr, Co and Ni ratios
L. Folco, B.P. Glass, M. D’Orazio, P. Rochette Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 20 November 2017 LINK “Impactor identification is one of the challenges of large-scale impact cratering studies due…
Anatomy of impactites and shocked zircon grains from Dhala reveals Paleoproterozoic meteorite impact in the Archean basement rocks of Central India
Shan-Shan Li, S. Keerthy, M. Santosh, S.P. Singh, C.D. Deering, M. Satyanarayanan, M.N. Praveen, V. Aneeshkumar, G.K. Indu, Y. Anilkumar, K.S. Sajinkumar Gondwana Research Volume 54, February 2018, Pages 81–101 LINK “Highlights • Geochemistry of…
On the history of the early meteoritic bombardment of the Moon: was there a terminal lunar cataclysm?
Greg Michael, Alexander Basilevsky, Gerhard Neukum Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 November 2017 LINK “Highlights • Statistics of 269 K-Ar datings of lunar highland returned samples are reviewed. • These are compared…
Kamenetsk—A new impact structure in the Ukrainian Shield.
Gurov, E., Nikolaenko, N., Shevchuk, H. and Yamnichenko, A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12951 LINK “The Kamenetsk impact structure is a deeply eroded simple crater that formed in crystalline rocks of the Ukrainian Shield….
Combining shock barometry with numerical modeling: Insights into complex crater formation—The example of the Siljan impact structure (Sweden)
Holm-Alwmark, S., Rae, A. S. P., Ferrière, L., Alwmark, C. and Collins, G. S. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12955 LINK “Siljan, central Sweden, is the largest known impact structure in Europe. It was formed…
Meteoritic matter from the Ries and Steinheim impactors?
Schmidt, G., El Goresy, A., Pernicka, E. Paneth Kolloquium Nördlingen (2017), abstract #0070 October 11-13, 2017 PDF “Possible meteoritic matter on the fracture surfaces of shattered belemnites from the rim of the Ries impact crater…
A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Nördlinger Ries impact crater, Germany, and implications for the accurate dating of terrestrial impact events
Martin Schmieder, Trudi Kennedy, Fred Jourdan, Elmar Buchner, Wolf Uwe Reimold Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 September 2017 LINK “40Ar/39Ar dating of specimens of moldavite, the formation of which…
Impact characteristics of different rocks in a pulsed-laser irradiation experiment: Simulation of micrometeorite bombardment on the Moon
Wu, Yanxue; Li, Xiongyao; Yao, Wenqing; Wang, Shijie Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JE005220 LINK “Without the protection of the atmosphere, the soils on lunar surfaces undergo a series of optical, physical, and chemical…
Hydrocode modeling of the spallation process during hypervelocity impacts: Implications for the ejection of Martian meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Kosuke Kurosawa, Takaya Okamoto, Hidenori Genda accepted for publication in Icarus PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Hypervelocity ejection of material by impact spallation is considered a plausible mechanism for material exchange between two planetary bodies. We have…
Hydrothermally enhanced magnetization at the center of the Haughton impact structure?
Zylberman, W., Quesnel, Y., Rochette, P., Osinski, G. R., Marion, C. and Gattacceca, J. (2017), Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12917 LINK “Haughton is a ~24 Myr old midsize (apparent diameter 23 km) complex impact…
Morphology of the Morasko crater field (western Poland): Influences of pre-impact topography, meteoroid impact processes, and post-impact alterations
Wojciech Włodarski, Joanna Papis, Witold Szczuciński Geomorphology, Volume 295, 15 October 2017, Pages 586-597 Available online 13 August 2017 LINK “Highlights • New detailed topography of small impact craters in unconsolidated sediments • The craters…
Zhamanshin astrobleme provides evidence for carbonaceous chondrite and post-impact exchange between ejecta and Earth’s atmosphereOPEN ACCESS
Tomáš Magna, Karel Žák, Andreas Pack, Frédéric Moynier, Bérengère Mougel, Stefan Peters, Roman Skála, Šárka Jonášová, Jiří Mizera & Zdeněk Řanda Nature Communications 8, Article number: 227 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00192-5 Published online: 09 August 2017 LINK…
On the Nature of the Ni-rich Component in Splash-form Australasian Tektites
Steven Goderis, Roald Tagle, Jörg Fritz, Rainer Bartoschewitz, Natalia Artemieva Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 August 2017 LINK “The Australasian tektite strewn field is exceptional, not only as the…
Implications for behavior of volatile elements during impacts—Zinc and copper systematics in sediments from the Ries impact structure and central European tektites.
Rodovská, Z., Magna, T., Žák, K., Kato, C., Savage, P. S., Moynier, F., Skála, R. and Ježek, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12922 LINK “Moldavites are tektites genetically related to the Ries impact structure,…
Evidence for a chondritic impactor, evaporation-condensation effects and melting of the Precambrian basement beneath the ‘target’ Deccan basalts at Lonar crater, India
Rahul Das Gupta, Anupam Banerjee, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys, Frank Vanhaecke, Ramananda Chakrabarti Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 July 2017 LINK “The ∼1.88 km diameter Lonar impact crater formed…
The preservation of the Agoudal impact crater, Morocco, under a landslide: Indication of a genetic link between shatter cones and meteorite fragments
Hassane Nachit, El Hassan Abia, Costanza Bonadiman, Mario Di Martino, Carmela Vaccaro Geomorphology, Volume 295, 15 October 2017, Pages 76-83 Review Article LINK “Geological studies and tomographic profiles of a locality nearby the Agoudal village…
A METEORITE FRAGMENT TRAPPED BETWEEN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SHATTER CONES IN A LIMESTONE BLOCK STORED AT THE METEORKRATER-MUSEUM STEINHEIM, GERMANY
E. Buchner, M. Hölzel, M. Schmieder, M. Rasser, J. Fietzke, M. Frische, S. Kutterolf 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2017 abstract “A metallic fragment on a shatter cone surface of a shattered limestone…
Atomic-scale age resolution of planetary eventsOPEN ACCESS
L. F. White, J. R. Darling, D. E. Moser, D. A. Reinhard, T. J. Prosa, D. Bullen, D. Olson, D. J. Larson, D. Lawrence & I. Martin Nature Communications 8, Article number: 15597 (2017) doi:10.1038/ncomms15597…
A new high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Rochechouart impact structure: At least 5 Ma older than the Triassic–Jurassic boundaryOPEN ACCESS
Cohen, Benjamin E., Mark, Darren F., Lee, Martin R., Simpson, Sarah L. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 10.1111/maps.12880 Available online 16 May 2017 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Rochechourt impact structure in south-central France,…
Reconstruction of the Morasko meteoroid impact—Insight from numerical modeling.
Bronikowska, M., Artemieva, N. A. and Wünnemann, K. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12882 LINK “The Morasko strewn field located near Poznań, Poland comprises seven impact craters with diameters ranging from 20 to 90 m,…
New insights on petrography and geochemistry of impactites from the Lonar crater, India.
Ray, D., Upadhyay, D., Misra, S., Newsom, H. E. and Ghosh, S. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12881 LINK “The Lonar impact crater, India, is one of the few known terrestrial impact craters excavated in…
The behavior of osmium and other siderophile elements during impacts: Insights from the Ries impact structure and central European tektites
Lukáš Ackerman, Tomáš Magna, Karel Žák, Roman Skála, Šárka Jonášová, Jiří Mizera, Zdeněk Řanda Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 April 2017 LINK “Impact processes are natural phenomena that contribute…
Asteroid impact effects and their immediate hazards for human populations
Rumpf, Clemens M., Lewis, Hugh G., Atkinson, Peter M. Geophysical Research Letters 10.1002/2017GL073191 19 April 2017 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) until 19 May 2017 “A set of 50,000 artificial Earth impacting asteroids was used to…
Protracted volcanism after large impacts: evidence from the Sudbury impact basin
Ubide, Teresa; Guyett, Paul C.; Kenny, Gavin G.; O’Sullivan, Edel M.; Ames, Doreen E.; Petrus, Joseph A.; Riggs, Nancy Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Accepted manuscript online: 20 March 2017 LINK “Morphological studies of large…
Cathodoluminescence of moldavites.
Fritzke, B., Götze, J. and Lange, J.-M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12852 LINK “A systematic study of a large set of moldavites and the application of cathodoluminescence (CL)-spectroscopy with a detailed discussion of spectral…
Coesite in suevite from the Ries impact structure (Germany): From formation to postshock evolution.
Fazio, A., Mansfeld, U. and Langenhorst, F. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12849 LINK “Coesite is one of the most common and abundant high-pressure phases occurring in impactites. The mechanism of formation of coesite and…
Geochemical evidence of an extraterrestrial component in impact melt breccia from the Paleoproterozoic Dhala impact structure, India.
Pati, J. K., Qu, W. J., Koeberl, C., Reimold, W. U., Chakarvorty, M. and Schmitt, R. T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12826 LINK “The Paleoproterozoic Dhala structure with an estimated diameter of ~11 km…
Complex crater formation: Insights from combining observations of shock pressure distribution with numerical models at the West Clearwater Lake impact structureOPEN ACCESS
Rae, A. S. P., Collins, G. S., Grieve, R. A. F., Osinski, G. R., Morgan, J. V. Meteoritic & Planetary Science doi:10.1111/maps.12825 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Large impact structures have complex morphologies, with…
Meteoritic Component in Melt Rocks from the Boltysh (Ukraine) and Lonar (India) Impact Structures: First Assessment
C. Koeberl, B. Mougel, F. Moynier 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #1331 LINK
Late Eocene 3He and Ir anomalies associated with ordinary chondritic spinelsOPEN ACCESS
Samuele Boschi, Birger Schmitz, Philipp R. Heck, Anders Cronholm, Céline Defouilloy, Noriko T. Kita, Simonetta Monechi, Alessandro Montanari, Surya S. Rout, Fredrik Terfelt Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 3 February…
On critical observations that constrain models of terrestrial hypervelocity impact craters
Michael R. Dence Meteoritics & Planetary Science doi: 10.1111/maps.12822 Version of record online: 2 February 2017 LINK “Impact structures in the crystalline rocks of the Canadian Shield range over two orders of magnitude in size…
Laser-induced melting experiments: Simulation of short-term high-temperature impact processes
Ebert, M.; Hecht, L.; Hamann, C.; Luther, R. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 10.1111/maps.12809 First published: 30 January 2017 LINK “This study introduces an experimental approach using direct laser irradiation to simulate the virtually instantaneous melting…
Petrogenesis of the EET 92023 achondrite and implications for early impact events
A. Yamaguchi, N. Shirai, C. Okamoto and M. Ebihara Meteoritics & Planetary Science 27 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/maps.12821 LINK “We report petrology and geochemistry of an achondrite EET 92023 and compare it with normal…
A previously unrecognized high-temperature impactite from the Steen River impact structure, Alberta, Canada
E.Walton, A.Hughes, E.MacLagan, C.D.K.Herd, M.Dence Geology DOI: 10.1130/G38556.1 First Published on January 23, 2017 LINK “Here, we report a previously unrecognized impactite from the Steen River impact structure in Alberta, Canada, which was intersected by…
A tale of clusters: No resolvable periodicity in the terrestrial impact cratering recordOPEN ACCESS
Matthias M. M. Meier, Sanna Holm-Alwmark MNRAS (2017) stx211. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx211 Published: 25 January 2017 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) (updated: 1 Feb) LINK “Rampino & Caldeira (2015) carry out a circular spectral analysis (CSA) of the terrestrial…
Rare meteorites common in the Ordovician periodOPEN ACCESS
Philipp R. Heck, Birger Schmitz, William F. Bottke, Surya S. Rout, Noriko T. Kita, Anders Cronholm, Céline Defouilloy, Andrei Dronov & Fredrik Terfelt Nature Astronomy 1 Article number: 0035 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41550-016-0035 Published online: 23 January…
Chromium isotope evidence in ejecta deposits for the nature of Paleoproterozoic impactorsOPEN ACCESS
Berengere Mougel, Frederic Moynier, Christa Gopel, Christian Koeberl PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “Non-mass dependent chromium isotopic signatures have been successfully used to determine the presence and identification of extra-terrestrial materials in terrestrial impact rocks. Paleoproterozoic…
Formation of Apollo 16 impactites and the composition of late accreted material: constraints from Os isotopes, highly siderophile elements and sulfur abundances
Philipp Gleißner, Harry Becker Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 December 2016 LINK “Fe-Ni metal-schreibersite-troilite intergrowths in Apollo 16 impact melt rocks and new highly siderophile element (HSE) and S…
Evidence for a spatially extensive hydrothermal system at the Ries impact structure, Germany.
Sapers, H. M., Osinski, G. R., Flemming, R. L., Buitenhuis, E., Banerjee, N. R., Tornabene, L. L., Blain, S. and Hainge, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12796 LINK “The ~15 Ma, 26 km diameter…
The formation of peak rings in large impact craters
Joanna V. Morgan, Sean P. S. Gulick, Timothy Bralower, Elise Chenot, Gail Christeson, Philippe Claeys, Charles Cockell, Gareth S. Collins, Marco J. L. Coolen, Ludovic Ferrière, Catalina Gebhardt, Kazuhisa Goto, Heather Jones, David A. Kring,…
An unusual occurrence of coesite at the Lonar crater, India.
Jaret, S. J., Phillips, B. L., King, D. T., Glotch, T. D., Rahman, Z. and Wright, S. P. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12745 LINK “Coesite has been identified within ejected blocks of shocked basalt…
The Lawn Hill annulus: An Ordovician meteorite impact into water-saturated dolomite.
Darlington, V., Blenkinsop, T., Dirks, P., Salisbury, J. and Tomkins, A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12734 First published: 21 October 2016 LINK “The Lawn Hill Impact Structure (LHIS) is located 250 km N of…
Impact ejecta at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary
Morgan F. Schaller, Megan K. Fung, James D. Wright, Miriam E. Katz, Dennis V. Kent Science 14 Oct 2016: Vol. 354, Issue 6309, pp. 225-229 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf5466 LINK “Extraterrestrial impacts have left a substantial imprint…
Strontium and neodymium isotope systematics of target rocks and impactites from the El’gygytgyn impact structure: Linking impactites and target rocks.
Wegner, W. and Koeberl, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12731 LINK “The 3.6 Ma El’gygytgyn structure, located in northeastern Russia on the Chukotka Peninsula, is an 18 km diameter complex impact structure. The bedrock…
The “suevite” conundrum, Part 1: The Ries suevite and Sudbury Onaping Formation compared.
Osinski, G. R., Grieve, R. A. F., Chanou, A. and Sapers, H. M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12728 LINK “The term “suevite” has been applied to various impact melt-bearing breccias found in different stratigraphic…
Morphological changes of olivine grains reacted with amino acid solutions by impact process
Yuhei Umeda, Atsushi Takase, Nao Fukunaga, Toshimori Sekine, Takamichi Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Takeshi Kakegawa Physics and Chemistry of Minerals First Online:04 October 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s00269-016-0849-y LINK “Early oceans on Earth might have contained certain amounts…
The fate of moderately volatile elements in impact events—Lithium connection between the Ries sediments and central European tektites.
Rodovská, Z., Magna, T., Žák, K., Skála, R., Brachaniec, T. and Visscher, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12733 Version of Record online: 3 OCT 2016 LINK “Lithium abundances and isotope compositions are presented for…
Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions II: An analogue for high porosity targets.OPEN ACCESS
C. Avdellidou, M.C. Price, M. Delbo, and M.J. Cole MNRAS doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2381 First published online September 16, 2016 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We investigated how a target’s porosity affects the outcome of a collision, with respect…
Hyperspectral mapping of alteration assemblages within a hydrothermal vug at the Haughton impact structure, Canada.
Greenberger, R. N., Mustard, J. F., Osinski, G. R., Tornabene, L. L., Pontefract, A. J., Marion, C. L., Flemming, R. L., Wilson, J. H. and Cloutis, E. A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12716 LINK
Cratering on Ceres: Implications for its crust and evolution
By H. Hiesinger, S. Marchi, N. Schmedemann, P. Schenk, J. H. Pasckert, A. Neesemann, D. P. O’Brien, T. Kneissl, A. I. Ermakov, R. R. Fu, M. T. Bland, A. Nathues, T. Platz, D. A. Williams,…
Diachroneity of the Clearwater West and Clearwater East impact structures indicated by the (U–Th)/He dating method
M.B. Biren, M.C. van Soest, J.-A. Wartho, K.V. Hodges, J.G. Spray Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 453, 1 November 2016, Pages 56–66 LINK “Highlights • We dated the Clearwater Lake impact craters (Canada) via…
