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…
Impact Disruption of Bjurböle Porous Chondritic ProjectileOPEN ACCESS
Tomas Kohout, Maurizio Pajola, Assi-Johanna Soini, Alice Lucchetti, Arto Luttinen, Alexia Duchêne, Naomi Murdoch, Robert Luther, Nancy L. Chabot, Sabina D. Raducan The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 5, Number 5, Published 2024 May 31 LINK…
Identification of Earth’s late accretion by large impactors through mass independent Cr isotopes
Yogita Kadlag, Aryavart Anand, Mario Fischer-Gödde, Klaus Mezger , Kristoffer Szilas , Steven Goderis, Ingo Leya IcarusAvailable online 31 May 2024, 116143 LINK “Highlights “The late addition of extra-terrestrial material may represent an important source…
Long-term orbital evolution of Dimorphos boulders and implications on the origin of meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
M. Fenucci, A. Carbognani Accepted for publication on MNRAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) By using recent observations of the Dydimos-Dimorphos system from the Hubble Space Telescope, 37 boulders with a size of 4 to 7 meters…
Microstructural and chemical features of impact melts on Ryugu particle surfaces: Records of interplanetary dust hit on asteroid RyuguOPEN ACCESS
Megumi Matsumoto, Junya Matsuno, Akira Tsuchiyama, Tomoki Nakamura, Yuma Enokido, Mizuha Kikuiri, Aiko Nakato, Masahiro Yasutake, Kentaro Uesugi, Akihisa Takeuchi, […] Yuichi Tsuda Science Advances19 Jan 2024Vol 10, Issue 3 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
The Luna structure, India: A probable impact crater formed by an iron bolide
K.S. Sajinkumar, S. James, G.K. Indu, Saranya R. Chandran, Devika Padmakumar, J. Aswathi, S. Keerthy, M.N. Praveen, N. Sorcar, J.K. Tomson, Anil Chavan, Subhash Bhandari, M. Satyanarayanan, R. Bhushan, A. Dabhi, Y. Anilkumar Planetary and…
Oort cloud perturbations as a source of hyperbolic Earth impactorsOPEN ACCESS
Eloy Peña-Asensio, Jaakko Visuri, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Hector Socas-Navarro, Maria Gritsevich, Markku Siljama, Albert Rimola IcarusAvailable online 26 October 2023, 115844 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights Analyzed FH1, the first hyperbolic meteor detected by the Finnish…
The chondritic impactor origin of the Ni-rich component in Australasian tektites and microtektitesOPEN ACCESS
L. Folco, P. Rochette, M. D’Orazio, M. Masotta Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 23 September 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “In the Earth’s crust, Ni is generally concentrated in mafic and ultramafic…
Metal microspherules in breccias of the Onaping Formation, Sudbury impact structure, Ontario, Canada
Yevgeniy P. Gurov, Vitaliy V. Permiakov MAPSVersion of Record online: 22 June 2023 LINK “Metallic microspheres have been found in rocks from the Onaping Formation of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada. Microspherules are common in…
Chromium isotopes identify the extraterrestrial component in impactites from Dhala impact structure, IndiaOPEN ACCESS
Aryavart Anand, Anuj Kumar Singh, Klaus Mezger, Jayanta Kumar Pati MAPS, Version of Record online: 09 May 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Dhala structure in north-central India is a confirmed complex impact structure…
Early bombardment of the moon: Connecting the lunar crater record to the terrestrial planet formation
David Nesvorný, Fernando V. Roig, David Vokrouhlický, William F. Bottke, Simone Marchi, Alessandro Morbidelli, Rogerio Deienno Icarus, Available online 29 March 2023, 115545 LINK „The lunar crater record features ∼50 basins. The radiometric dating of…
Meteoritic component in impact breccias of the Jeokjung-Chogye structure, South Korea: Evidence from the HSE abundances and Re-Os isotopic systematics
Sung Hi Choi, Jeong-Hyun Lee, Seung-Sep Kim, Jaehyung Yu, Igor S. Puchtel Chemical GeologyIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 1 October 2022 LINK “Highlights • We report HSE and Re-Os isotope data for impactites from…
Preatmospheric Detection of a Meter-sized Earth ImpactorOPEN ACCESS
David L. Clark, Paul A. Wiegert, Peter G. Brown, Denis Vida, Aren Heinze, Larry Denneau This article has been submitted for publication in The Planetary Science Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update: (8 June 2023): The…
Nitrogen isotope evidence for Earth’s heterogeneous accretion of volatilesOPEN ACCESS
Lanlan Shi, Wenhua Lu, Takanori Kagoshima, Yuji Sano, Zenghao Gao, Zhixue Du, Yun Liu, Yingwei Fei & Yuan Li Nature Communications, Volume 13, Article number: 4769 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The origin of major…
Bombardment history of the Moon constrained by crustal porosity
Ya Huei Huang, Jason M. Soderblom, David A. Minton, Masatoshi Hirabayashi & H. Jay Melosh Nature GeosciencePublished: 07 July 2022 LINK “The formation and evolution of the terrestrial planets were shaped by a bombardment of…
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…
Reply to: The breakup of a long-period comet is not a likely match to the Chicxulub impactorOPEN ACCESS
Amir Siraj & Abraham Loeb Scientific Reports, Volume 12, Article number: 10427 (2022)Published: 21 June 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Replying to: S. Desch; Scientific Reports LINK (2022). “In a recent commentary, Desch et…
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…
Crater population on asteroid (101955) Bennu indicates impact armouring and a young surface
E. B. Bierhaus, D. Trang, R. T. Daly, C. A. Bennett, O. S. Barnouin, K. J. Walsh, R.-L. Ballouz, W. F. Bottke, K. N. Burke, M. E. Perry, E. R. Jawin, T. J. McCoy, H….
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)…
Impact remnants rich in carbonaceous chondrites detected on the Moon by the Chang’e-4 rover
Yazhou Yang, Shuai Li, Meng-Hua Zhu, Yang Liu, Bo Wu, Jun Du, Wenzhe Fa, Rui Xu, Zhiping He, Chi Wang, Bin Xue, Jianfeng Yang & Yongliao Zou Nature AstronomyPublished: 25 November 2021 LINK “The Moon…
Impactor material records the ancient lunar magnetic field in antipodal anomaliesOPEN ACCESS
S. Wakita, B. C. Johnson, I. Garrick-Bethell, M. R. Kelley, R. E. Maxwell & T. M. Davison Nature Communications, Volume 12, Article number: 6543 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Moon presently has no…
Taurid Stream #628: A Reservoir of Large Cometary ImpactorsOPEN ACCESS
Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Peter Jenniskens, Philip A. Bland, Eleanor K. Sansom, Martin C. Towner, Patrick Shober, Martin Cupák, Robert M. Howie, Benjamin A. D. Hartig, Seamus Anderson, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon and Jim Albers The Planetary…
Shock Wave Effects from the Impacts of Cosmic Objects with Diameters from 20 m to 3 km
D. O. Glazachev, O. P. Popova, E. D. Podobnaya, N. A. Artemieva, V. V. Shuvalov & V. V. Svetsov Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth, Volume 57, pages 698–709 (2021)Published: 03 November 2021 LINK “Destruction…
Numerous chondritic impactors and oxidized magma ocean set Earth’s volatile depletionOPEN ACCESS
Haruka Sakuraba, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Hidenori Genda & Kenji Ohta Scientific Reports, Volume 11, Article number: 20894 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Earth’s surface environment is largely influenced by its budget of major volatile elements:…
Delayed and variable late Archaean atmospheric oxidation due to high collision rates on Earth
S. Marchi, N. Drabon, T. Schulz, L. Schaefer, D. Nesvorny, W. F. Bottke, C. Koeberl & T. Lyons Nature GeosciencePublished: 21 October 2021 LINK “Frequent violent collisions of impactors from space punctuated the geological and…
Impacts on Ceres and Vesta: Source regions, cratering, and fragmentationOPEN ACCESS
Patricio Zain, Romina Di Sisto, Gonzalo de Elia Astronomy & AstrophysicsA&A, Forthcoming article, Accepted: 24 June 2021 PDF (OPEN ACCESS)LINK “We perform a study on the impacts on Ceres and Vesta. We aim to determine…
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…
Fingerprinting the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary impact with Zn isotopesOPEN ACCESS
Ryan Mathur, Brandon Mahan, Marissa Spencer, Linda Godfrey, Neil Landman, Matthew Garb, D. Graham Pearson, Sheng-Ao Liu & Francisca E. Oboh-Ikuenobe Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 4128 (2021)Published: 05 July 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF…
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…
The Chicxulub Impactor: Comet or Asteroid?
Steve Desch, Alan Jackson, Jessica Noviello, Ariel Anbar To be published in Astronomy and Geophysics PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A recent paper by Siraj & Loeb (2021) entitled “Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin…
Hydrodynamic instability at impact interfaces and planetary implicationsOPEN ACCESS
Avi Ravid, Robert I. Citron & Raymond Jeanloz Nature Communications, Volume 12 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Impact-induced mixing between bolide and target is fundamental to the geochemical evolution of a growing planet, yet aside…
Impacts on the Moon: analysis methods and size distribution of impactors
Chrysa Avdellidou, Edhah Munaibari, Raven Larson, Jeremie Vaubaillon, Marco Delbo, Paul Hayne, Mark Wieczorek, Daniel Sheward, Antony Cook Planetary and Space ScienceAvailable online 4 March 2021 LINK “We are preparing a telescope system to carry…
Crater shape as a possible record of the impact environment of metallic bodies: Effects of temperature, impact velocity and impactor densityOPEN ACCESS
Ryo Ogawa, Akiko M. Nakamura, Ayako Suzuki, Sunao Hasegawa Icarus, accepted PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Metallic bodies that were the cores of differentiated bodies are sources of iron meteorites and are considered to have formed early…
The Manifold Of Variations: impact location of short-term impactorsOPEN ACCESS
Alessio Del Vigna, Linda Dimare, Davide Bracali Cioci PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (20 May 2021) : LINK “The interest in the problem of small asteroids observed shortly before a deep close approach or an impact…
Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinctionOPEN ACCESS
Amir Siraj & Abraham Loeb Scientific Reports, Volume 11, Article number: 3803 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The origin of the Chicxulub impactor, which is attributed as the cause of the K/T mass extinction…
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.•…
Gravity strike angles: a modern approach and tool to estimate the direction of impactors of meteoritic craters
Jaroslav Klokočník, Jan Kostelecký, Aleš Bezděk, Gunther Kletetschka Planetary and Space ScienceIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 14 October 2020 LINK “Highlights the direction of impactor is estimated by a new method, independent of all…
Highly reduced accretion of the Earth by large impactors? Evidence from elemental partitioning between sulfide liquids and silicate melts at highly reduced conditions
E.S.Steenstraa, E.Kelderman, E. Kelderman, J. Berndt, S. Klemme, E.S.Bullock, W. van Westrenen Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 11 July 2020 LINK “The Earth may have formed at very reducing conditions through…
Physically based alternative to the PE criterion for meteoroidsOPEN ACCESS
Manuel Moreno-Ibáñez, Maria Gritsevich, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Elizabeth A. Silber PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteoroids impacting the Earth atmosphere are commonly classified using the PE criterion. This criterion was introduced to support the identification of the…
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…
Accretionary mixing of a eucrite impactor and the regolith of the L chondrite parent body
Brendt C. Hyde, Kimberly T. Tait, Desmond E. Moser, Douglas Rumble, Michelle S. Thompson Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 13 November 2019 LINK “Northwest Africa (NWA) 869 is the largest sample of chondritic regolith…
Origin of lunar fragmental matrix breccias—Highly siderophile element constraints
Philipp Gleißner, Harry Becker Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 19 July 2019 LINK “Ejecta at North Ray crater (Apollo 16) sampled a unique section of the lunar highlands not accessible at most other landing…
Mars in the aftermath of a colossal impactOPEN ACCESS
Jason Man Yin Woo, Hidenori Genda, Ramon Brasser, Stephen J. Mojzsis Icarus Volume 333, 15 November 2019, Pages 87-95 updated: 24 June 2019 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “Highlights • About half of the impactor’s core…
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…
Molybdenum Isotopic Evidence for an Outer Solar System Origin of the Moon-Forming Impactor
G. Budde, C. Burkhardt, T. Kleine 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2019), Abstract #2349 PDF abstract
Observation of metre-scale impactors by the Desert Fireball NetworkOPEN ACCESS
Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Philip A. Bland, Eleanor K. Sansom, Martin C. Towner, Martin Cupák, Robert M. Howie, Benjamin A. D. Hartig, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Morgan A. Cox MNRAS 000, 1–14 (2018) Submitted: 28 August, 2018…
On the impact origin of Phobos and Deimos III: resulting composition from different impactorsOPEN ACCESS
Francesco C. Pignatale, Sebastien Charnoz, Pascal Rosenblatt, Ryuki Hyodo, Tomoki Nakamura, Hidenori Genda Accepted for publication in ApJ (13/12/2017) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The origin of Phobos and Deimos in a giant impact generated disk is…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
Ancient Impactor Components Preserved and Reworked in Martian Regolith Breccia Northwest Africa 7034
Steven Goderis, Alan D. Brandon, Bernhard Mayer, Munir Humayun Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 25 July 2016 LINK “Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 and paired stones represent unique samples of martian…
On the Nature of the Impactor That Formed the Shackleton Crater on the Moon
Svetlana G. Pugacheva, Ekaterina A. Feoktistova Earth, Moon, and Planets pp 1-24, 10.1007/s11038-016-9489-y First online: 14 June 2016 LINK “The present paper attempts to assess the characteristics of the impactor that formed the Shackleton crater,…
