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Using Rock Blasted From Craters To Probe The Martian Subsurface

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Atmospheric Loss During Giant Impacts: Mechanisms And Scaling Of Near- And Far-field Loss

Impact events

Atmospheric Loss During Giant Impacts: Mechanisms And Scaling Of Near- And Far-field Loss

Polycyclic Aromatics In The Chang’E 5 Lunar Soils

Moon

Polycyclic Aromatics In The Chang’E 5 Lunar Soils

Hydrothermal Activity Generated By Impact Melt Emplacement On The Rim Of Ritchey Crater, Mars

Mars

Hydrothermal Activity Generated By Impact Melt Emplacement On The Rim Of Ritchey Crater, Mars

Mars Mapping: Gullies On The Northern Crater Slope In Terra Sirenum

Mars

Mars Mapping: Gullies On The Northern Crater Slope In Terra Sirenum

Conference: Impacts And Their role In The Origin And Evolution Of Life

Conferences and Meetings

Conference: Impacts And Their role In The Origin And Evolution Of Life

The Solar Wind Can Apparently Make Water On The Lunar Surface

Moon

The Solar Wind Can Apparently Make Water On The Lunar Surface

Carbonaceous Meteorites Are Fragile

Meteorites & Asteroids

Carbonaceous Meteorites Are Fragile

Dinosaurs’ Apparent Decline Prior To Asteroid May Be Due To A Poor Fossil Record

Extinction events

Dinosaurs’ Apparent Decline Prior To Asteroid May Be Due To A Poor Fossil Record

Life Recovered Rapidly After The Chicxulub Impact – A Hydrothermal System May Have Helped

Extinction events

Life Recovered Rapidly After The Chicxulub Impact – A Hydrothermal System May Have Helped

Ray Ionisation Of A Post-impact Early Earth Atmosphere: Solar Cosmic Ray Ionisation Must Be Considered In Origin-of-life Scenarios

Origin & Evolution of Life

Ray Ionisation Of A Post-impact Early Earth Atmosphere: Solar Cosmic Ray Ionisation Must Be Considered In Origin-of-life Scenarios

Hunga Volcano Eruption Cooled, Rather Than Warmed, Earth’s Southern Hemisphere

Atmospheres & Climate

Hunga Volcano Eruption Cooled, Rather Than Warmed, Earth’s Southern Hemisphere

Orbit, Meteoroid Size, And Cosmic Ray Exposure History Of The Aguas Zarcas CM2 Breccia

Meteorites & Asteroids

Orbit, Meteoroid Size, And Cosmic Ray Exposure History Of The Aguas Zarcas CM2 Breccia

A Meteorite With Water-rich Minerals Lands On Earth In Good Condition

Meteorites & Asteroids

A Meteorite With Water-rich Minerals Lands On Earth In Good Condition

The Atmospheric Entry of Cometary Impactors

Impact events

The Atmospheric Entry of Cometary Impactors

Impacts Into Titan’s Methane-clathrate Crust As A Source Of Atmospheric Methane

Titan

Impacts Into Titan’s Methane-clathrate Crust As A Source Of Atmospheric Methane

An Upper Limit on the Interstellar Meteoroid Flux at Video Sizes from the Global Meteor Network

Meteorites & Asteroids

An Upper Limit on the Interstellar Meteoroid Flux at Video Sizes from the Global Meteor Network

Spectral Effects of Shock Darkening On Ordinary Chondrite and Howardite, Eucrite, And Diogenite Meteorites

Meteorites & Asteroids

Spectral Effects of Shock Darkening On Ordinary Chondrite and Howardite, Eucrite, And Diogenite Meteorites

Deep Mantle-Atmosphere Coupling And Carbonaceous Bombardment: Options For Biomolecule Formation On Aan Oxidized Early Earth

Origin & Evolution of Life

Deep Mantle-Atmosphere Coupling And Carbonaceous Bombardment: Options For Biomolecule Formation On Aan Oxidized Early Earth

Planetesimal Impact Vapor Plumes and Nebular Shocks Form Chondritic Mixtures

Meteorites & Asteroids

Planetesimal Impact Vapor Plumes and Nebular Shocks Form Chondritic Mixtures