Multiple studies have proposed a substantial surge in large lunar impacts approximately 800 million years ago (Ma).
Meteorites & Asteroids
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New Experiments And Modeling On Iron Meteorites Provide Insight Into Young Solar System And Earth’s Building Blocks
Habitable planets require life-essential elements, like nitrogen and phosphorus. Understanding how those elements ended up in a planetary body can give insight into the formation of the solar system and […]
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Oxidation Constraints On Terrestrial Planet Formation From A Ring
The present-day solar system comprises meteorites with varying oxidation levels, derived from different parent bodies.
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Modeling Carbon Outgassing From Chondritic Planetesimals
The thermochemical evolution of planetesimals is an underprobed stage of volatile delivery to terrestrial planets during their formation, and may contribute to the volatile depletion of the Earth relative to […]
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A Cloud-Based Tool For Meteorite Recovery Using Drones And Machine Learning
We present a cloud-based tool that uses drones and machine learning to help recover instrumentally observed meteorite falls.
Posted inAstrogeology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Impact events, Mars, Meteorites & Asteroids, Panspermia, Status Report
Could Life Have Been Transferred From Mars To Earth? Laboratory And Computational Simulations Of Martian Ejecta
The study of the origin of life on Earth has been broadened due to panspermia models that suggest that early life may have been transferred between planets.
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A Panspermia Origin For Venus Cloud Life
Decades of study have hinted at the astrobiological potential of Venus’s cloud layers. This potential is often cast as stemming from the idea that the Venusian surface was clement in […]
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Did Impacts From Meteors Help Start Life On Earth?
Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells could take shape, according to research integrated by a recent Rutgers University […]
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Moon Record Analysis Challenges Impact Origin Of Earth’s Water
A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered a major share of Earth’s water. A new study argues that the […]
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Offworld Science Droids: A Review Maps Key Technologies For Small-body Sampling Robots
Unlike planetary rovers operating on the Moon or Mars, robots working on asteroids and comets must interact with surfaces where gravity is extremely weak, terrain is highly irregular, and material […]