Young asteroid families as the primary source of meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
M. Brož, P. Vernazza, M. Marsset, F.E. DeMeo, R.P. Binzel, D. Vokrouhlický, D. Nesvorný PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (16 October 2024): Nature, Volume 634, pages 566–571 LINK “Understanding the origin of bright shooting stars and…
The Massalia asteroid family as the origin of ordinary L chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Michaël Marsset, Pierre Vernazza, Miroslav Brož, Cristina A. Thomas, Francesca E. DeMeo, Brian Burt, Richard P. Binzel, Vishnu Reddy, Allison McGraw, Chrysa Avdellidou, Benoit Carry, Stephen M. Slivan, David Polishook PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (16…
Unusual sources of fossil micrometeorites deduced from relict chromite in the small size fraction in ~467 Ma old limestoneOPEN ACCESS
Philipp R. Heck, Birger Schmitz, Xenia Ritter, Surya S. Rout, Noriko T. Kita, Céline Defouilloy, Katarina Keating, Kevin Eisenstein, Fredrik Terfelt MAPS, Version of Record online: 02 February 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Extraterrestrial…
Terrestrial ages of seven meteorite strewn fields and two single unpaired meteorites from the Sultanate of Oman determined using 14C and 10BeOPEN ACCESS
Malgorzata U. Sliz, Beda A. Hofmann, Ingo Leya, Sönke Szidat, Christophe Espic, Jérôme Gattacceca, Régis Braucher, Daniel Borschneck, Edwin Gnos, ASTER Team MAPSVersion of Record online: 13 November 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Through…
The mid-Ordovician meteorite flux to Earth shortly before breakup of the L-chondrite parent body
ShiYong Liao, Birger Schmitz IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 23 September 2022 LINK “Highlights • Flux of large micrometeorites to Earth shortly (in the 2 Ma time interval) before the breakup of the L-chondrite parent…
Meteorite terrestrial ages in Oman based on gamma spectrometry and sediment dating, focusing on the Ramlat Fasad dense collection areaOPEN ACCESS
Åke V. Rosén, Beda A. Hofmann, Frank Preusser, Edwin Gnos, Urs Eggenberger, Marc Schumann, Sönke Szidat Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 04 November 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We combine the search…
Asteroid break-ups and meteorite delivery to Earth the past 500 million yearsOPEN ACCESS
Fredrik Terfelt and Birger Schmitz PNAS June 15, 2021 118 (24) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary Information “The meteoritic material falling on Earth is believed to derive from large break-up or cratering events in…
The spatial flux of Earth’s meteorite falls found via Antarctic dataOPEN ACCESS
G.W. Evatt, A.R.D. Smedley, K.H. Joy, L. Hunter, W.H. Tey, I.D. Abrahams, L. Gerrish Geology, 29 April 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Contemporary calculations for the flux of extraterrestrial material falling to the Earth’s…
Mass Distributions of Meteorites
Alberto S Betzler, Ernesto P Borges Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, staa521 Published: 21 February 2020 LINK “For at least five decades the study of the mass distribution of meteorites has been carried…
A statistical analysis of the H/L ratio of ordinary chondrite finds and falls: A comparison of Oman finds with other populations
Ioannis Kouvatsis, Beda A. Hofmann Meteoritics & Planetary Science LINK “Hot and cold deserts have been thoroughly searched for meteorites in the past decades, which has led to a large inventory of classified meteorites. H‐…
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)…
An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent bodyOPEN ACCESS
Birger Schmitz, Kenneth A. Farley, Steven Goderis, Philipp R. Heck, Stig M. Bergström, Samuele Boschi, Philippe Claeys, Vinciane Debaille, Andrei Dronov, Matthias van Ginneken, David A.T. Harper, Faisal Iqbal, Johan Friberg, Shiyong Liao, Ellinor Martin,…
The meteorite flux of the last 2 Myr recorded in the Atacama desertOPEN ACCESS
A. Drouard, J. Gattacceca, A. Hutzler, P. Rochette, R. Braucher, D. Bourlès, ASTER Team, M. Gounelle, A. Morbidelli, V. Debaille, M. Van Ginneken, M. Valenzuela, Y. Quesnel, R. Martinez accepted in Geology PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Meteorite flux to Earth in the Early Cretaceous as reconstructed from sediment-dispersed extraterrestrial spinelsOPEN ACCESS
Birger Schmitz; Philipp R. Heck; Walter Alvarez; Noriko T. Kita; Surya S. Rout; Anders Cronholm; Céline Defouilloy; Ellinor Martin; Jan Smit; Fredrik Terfelt Geology July 2017, Vol.45, 807-810. doi:10.1130/G39297.1 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
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…
