Delivery of DART Impact Ejecta to Mars and Earth: Opportunity for Meteor ObservationsOPEN ACCESS
Eloy Peña-Asensio, Michael Küppers, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Albert Rimola Draft version August 7, 2024 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “NASA’s DART and ESA’s Hera missions offer a unique opportunity to investigate the delivery of impact ejecta to…
The “suevite” conundrum, Part 2: Re-examining the type locality at the Ries impact structure, GermanyOPEN ACCESS
Gordon R. Osinski, Richard A. F. Grieve MAPS, Version of Record online: 16 July 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “One of the most common types of allochthonous impactite produced in hypervelocity impact events is…
Proximal ejecta of the putative parent impact crater for Australasian tektites at the Bolaven Plateau / Reply to Mizera and Strunga: Evidence for the Bolaven impact crater and its ejectaOPEN ACCESS
Jiří Mizera and Vladimír Strunga PNAS, May 13, 2024LETTER LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Sieh et al. (Proximal ejecta of the Bolaven extraterrestrial impact, southern Laos ) support their hypothesis locating the parent impact crater…
Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid DimorphosOPEN ACCESS
Jian-Yang Li, Masatoshi Hirabayashi,Tony L. Farnham, Jessica M. Sunshine, Matthew M. Knight, Gonzalo Tancredi, Fernando Moreno, Brian Murphy, Cyrielle Opitom, Steve Chesley, Daniel J. Scheeres, Cristina A. Thomas, Eugene G. Fahnestock, Andrew F. Cheng, Linda…
Identification of the ejecta deposit formed by the Australasian Tektite Event at Huai Om, northeastern ThailandOPEN ACCESS
Toshihiro Tada, Ryuji Tada, Paul A. Carling, Wickanet Songtham, Praphas Chansom, Toshihiro Kogure, Yu Chang, Eiichi Tajika MAPSVersion of Record online: 30 August 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Australasian Tektite Event, approximately 0.8 Ma,…
Microscopic impactor debris at Kamil Crater (Egypt): the origin of the Fe-Ni oxide spherules
L. Folco, L. Carone, M. D’Orazio, C. Cordier, M.D.Suttle, M. van Ginneken, M. Masotta Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 1 July 2022 LINK “Kamil crater (Egypt) is a natural laboratory for…
Chondrule formation via impact jetting in the icy outer solar system
Melissa D. Cashion, Brandon C. Johnson, Alexander N. Krot, Katherine Kretke, Shigeru Wakita, Thomas M. Davison IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 24 May 2022 LINK “Highlights • Jetting during icy impacts is proposed to…
Low surface strength of the asteroid Bennu inferred from impact ejecta deposit
M. E. Perry, O. S. Barnouin, R. T. Daly, E. B. Bierhaus, R.-L. Ballouz, K. J. Walsh, M. G. Daly, D. N. DellaGiustina, M. C. Nolan, J. P. Emery, M. M. Al Asad, C. L….
Did Earth eat its leftovers? Impact ejecta as a component of the late veneerOPEN ACCESS
Philip J. Carter, Sarah T. Stewart Draft version April 11, 2022, to be published in PSJ PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (19 April 2022):LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS)The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 3, Number 4 “The…
Meteorites that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctionsOPEN ACCESS
M.J. Pankhurst, C.J. Stevenson and B.C. Coldwell Journal of the Geological Society, 1 December 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteorite impacts load the atmosphere with dust and cover the Earth’s surface with debris. They…
The formation of impact coesiteOPEN ACCESS
F. Campanale, E. Mugnaioli, M. Gemmi & L. Folco Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 16011 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Coesite in impact rocks is traditionally considered a retrograde product formed during pressure…
Constraints on the origins of iron silicide spherules in ultrahigh-temperature distal impact ejectaOPEN ACCESS
Sergei Batovrin, Boris Lipovsky, Yury Gulbin, Yury Pushkarev, Yury A. Shukolyukov Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 19 July 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Terrestrially occurring iron silicide spherules, described in the geological…
A 650 km2 Miocene strewnfield of splash-form impact glasses in the Atacama Desert, ChileOPEN ACCESS
J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, J.-A. Barrat, P. Rochette, M.L. Balestrier, G. Bigazzi, G. Ménard, F. Moustard, E. Dos Santos, R. Scorzelli, M. Valenzuela, M. Gounelle, V. Debaille, P. Beck, L.Bonal, B. Reynard, M. Warner Earth…
Shocked quartz in distal ejecta from the Ries impact event (Germany) found at ~ 180 km distance, near Bernhardzell, eastern SwitzerlandOPEN ACCESS
Sanna Holm-Alwmark, Carl Alwmark, Ludovic Ferrière, Matthias M. M. Meier, Sofie Lindström, Gavin G. Kenny, Emma Sheldon, Günter Schweigert, Christoph Spötl, Martin J. Whitehouse & Beda A. Hofmann Scientific Reports 11 , 1–15 LINK (OPEN…
Jetting during oblique impacts of spherical impactors
Shigeru Wakita, Brandon Johnson, C. Adeene Denton, Thomas M.Davison IcarusAvailable online: 8 February 2021 LINK “Highlights • We examine the efficiency of jetting during oblique impacts.• Oblique impacts produce more jetted ejecta than vertical impacts.•…
Impact Experiment on Asteroid (162173) Ryugu: Structure beneath the Impact Point Revealed by In Situ Observations of the Ejecta Curtain
Toshihiko Kadono, Masahiko Arakawa, Rie Honda, Ko Ishibashi, Kazunori Ogawa, Naoya Sakatani, Hirotaka Sawada, Yuri Shimaki, Kei Shirai, Seiji Sugita, and Koji Wada The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 899, Number 1 LINK “An impact experiment…
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…
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)…
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…
The Impact Ejecta Environment of Near Earth Asteroids
Jamey R. Szalay and Mihály Horány The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 830, Number 2 LINK “Impact ejecta production is a ubiquitous process that occurs on all airless bodies throughout the solar system. Unlike the Moon,…
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…
