A New Lunar High-Ti Basalt Type Defined from Clasts in Apollo 16 Breccia 60639

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A.L. Fagan, C.R. Neal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 31 August 2015 LINK

Precambrian reidite discovered in shocked zircon from the Stac Fada impactite, Scotland

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Geology, G37066.1, first published on August 21, 2015 doi: 10.1130/G37066.1 LINK Curtis University – media release (Sept. 1, 2015): Breakthrough mineral discovery points to ancient meteorite impacts Terrestrial impact events have had a profound influence…

Delivering a Projectile Component to the Vestan Regolith

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R. Terik Daly, Peter H. Schultz Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 1 September 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.034 LINK Dark material on Vesta may consist of carbonaceous chondrite-like material delivered by impact events. This study uses…

Globally unique double crater identified in Sweden / Världsunik dubbelkrater identifierad i Sverige

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LINK (English) LINK (press release, Erik Sturkell, Göteborgs universitet (gvc.gu.se) August 31, 2015) “Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have found traces of two enormous meteorite impacts in the Swedish county of Jämtland, a twin…

Observation of charged nanograins at comet 67P/Churyumov‐Gerasimenko

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J. L. Burch, T. I. Gombosi, G. Clark, P. Mokashi, R. Goldstein Geophysical Research Letters DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065177 LINK (open access)

Dielectric properties of Vesta’s surface as constrained by Dawn VIR observations

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Elizabeth M. Palmer, Essam Heggy, Maria T. Capria, Federico Tosi Icarus Available online 1 September 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.031 LINK (open access)

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