Space Impacts

Prof. Giorgio Sartor

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Climate	Earthquakes	Geochemistry	Planet evolution and continents
Rivers	Sea, shores and coasts	SPACE IMPACTS	Volcanoes

Comets, asteroids and meteorites

Humans in the space

A 4,565-My-old andesite from an extinct chondritic protoplanet

A global system of furrows on Ganymede indicative of their creation in a single impact event

A large meteoritic event over Antarctica ca. 430 ka ago inferred from chondritic spherules from the Sør Rondane Mountains

A new unified catalogue and a new map of the 1908 tree fall in the site of the Tunguska Cosmic Body explosion

A reassessment of the proposed ‘Lairg Impact Structure’ and its potential implications for the deep structure of northern Scotland

A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota

A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact

An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body

Australasian impact crater buried under the Bolaven volcanic field, Southern Laos

Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction

Earth and Moon impact flux increased at the end of the Paleozoic

End-Cretaceous extinction in Antarctica linked to both Deccan volcanism and meteorite impact via climate change

Evidence for a rosiaite-structured high-pressure silica phase and its relation to lamellar amorphization in quartz

Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria at the Younger Dryas Onset (~12.8 ka): High-temperature melting at >2200°C

Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents

Giant Impact Origin for the Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces

Geophysical anomalies and quartz deformation of the Warburton West structure, central Australia

Geological controls of giant crater development on the Arctic seafloor

Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure

Hemolithin: a Meteoritic Protein containing Iron and Lithium

Identifying Earth-impacting asteroids using an artificial neural network

Impact simulation in the gravity regime: Exploring the effects of parent body size and internal structure

Natural and experimental high‑pressure, shock‑produced terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials

On the possibility of through passage of asteroid bodies across the Earth’s atmosphere

Physical Characterization of Metal-rich Near-Earth Asteroids 6178 (1986 DA) and 2016 ED85

Plasma shielding removes prior magnetization record from impacted rocks near Santa Fe, New Mexico

Precise radiometric age establishes Yarrabubba, Western Australia, as Earth’s oldest recognised meteorite impact structure

Primitive Helium Is Sourced From Seismically Slow Regions in the Lowermost Mantle

Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater

Searching for giant, ancient impact structures on Earth: The Mesoarchaean
Maniitsoq structure, West Greenland

Secondary cratering on Earth: The Wyoming impact crater field

Stirred not shaken; critical evaluation of a proposed Archean meteorite impact in West Greenland

The 22 september 1979 event

The effect of pre-impact spin on the Moon-forming collision

The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life

The manufacture and origin of the Tutankhamen meteoritic iron dagger

The Mesoproterozoic Stac Fada proximal ejecta blanket, NW Scotland: constraints on crater location from field observations, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, petrography and geochemistry

Vela Event: Evaluation of some geophysical event on 22 september 1979

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