Ruthenium isotopes show the Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid
Mario Fischer-Gödde, Jonas Tusch, Steven Goderis, Alessandro Bragagni, Tanja Mohr-Westheide, Nils Messling, Bo-Magnus Elfers, Birger Schmitz, Wolf U. Reimold, Wolfgang D. Maier, Philippe Claeys, Christian Koeberl, François L. H. Tissot, Martin Bizzarro, and Carsten Münker…
The breakup of a long-period comet is not a likely match to the Chicxulub impactorOPEN ACCESS
Steven J. Desch, Alan P. Jackson, Jessica L. Noviello & Ariel D. Anbar Scientific Reports, Volume 12, Article number: 10415 (2022)Published: 21 June 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) The Original Article was published on…
The Chicxulub impact and its environmental consequences
Joanna V. Morgan, Timothy J. Bralower, Julia Brugger & Kai Wünnemann Nature Reviews Earth & EnvironmentReview Article, Published: 12 April 2022 LINK “Key points The Chicxulub impact ended the Mesozoic era and was almost certainly…
Search for a meteoritic component within the impact melt rocks of the Chicxulub impact structure peak ring, MexicoOPEN ACCESS
Jean-Guillaume Feignon, Toni Schulz, Ludovic Ferrière, Steven Goderis, Sietze J. de Graaff, Pim Kaskes, Thomas Déhais, Philippe Claeys, Christian Koeberl Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 9 February 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)…
Chicxulub impact structure, IODP‐ICDP Expedition 364 drill core: Geochemistry of the granite basementOPEN ACCESS
Jean-Guillaume Feignon, Sietze J. de Graaff, Ludovic Ferrière, Pim Kaskes, Thomas Déhais, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys, Christian Koeberl Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst Published: 29 July 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The IODP-ICDP Expedition 364…
Dark Primitive Asteroids Account for a Large Share of K/Pg-Scale Impacts on the EarthOPEN ACCESS
David Nesvorny, William F. Bottke, Simone Marchi Icarus PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK (Update: 15 July 2021) “Highlights • We develop a dynamical model for large near-Earth asteroids to understand the occurrence rate and nature of…
Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structureOPEN ACCESS
Steven Goderis, Honami Sato, Ludovic Ferrière, Birger Schmitz, David Burney, Pim Kaskes, Johan Vellekoop, Axel Wittmann, Toni Schulz, Stepan M. Chernonozhkin, Philippe Claeys, Sietze J. de Graaff, Thomas Déhais, Niels J. de Winter, Mikael Elfman,…
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,…
High spatial resolution geochemistry and textural characteristics of ‘microtektite’ glass spherules in proximal Cretaceous-Paleogene sections: insights into glass alteration patterns and precursor melt lithologies
Joke Belza, Steven Goderis, Jan Smit, Frank Vanhaecke, Kitty Baert, Herman Terryn, Philippe Claeys Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, available online 17 December 2014 LINK