Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

JS Albert, AC Carnaval, SGA Flantua, LG Lohmann… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

The terrestrial impact crater record: A statistical analysis of morphologies, structures, ages, lithologies, and more

T Kenkmann - Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The number of newly discovered and confirmed impact structures on earth is growing
continuously. In this review paper, the main attributes of 198 confirmed impact structures and …

Largest recent impact craters on Mars: Orbital imaging and surface seismic co-investigation

LV Posiolova, P Lognonné, WB Banerdt, J Clinton… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Two> 130-meter-diameter impact craters formed on Mars during the later half of 2021. These
are the two largest fresh impact craters discovered by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter …

Chelyabinsk airburst, damage assessment, meteorite recovery, and characterization

OP Popova, P Jenniskens, V Emel'yanenko… - Science, 2013 - science.org
The asteroid impact near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on 15 February 2013 was the
largest airburst on Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event, causing a natural disaster in an …

Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight

RF Garcia, IJ Daubar, É Beucler, LV Posiolova… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Meteoroid impacts shape planetary surfaces by forming new craters and alter atmospheric
composition. During atmospheric entry and impact on the ground, meteoroids excite …

A 500-kiloton airburst over Chelyabinsk and an enhanced hazard from small impactors

PG Brown, JD Assink, L Astiz, R Blaauw, MB Boslough… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Most large (over a kilometre in diameter) near-Earth asteroids are now known, but
recognition that airbursts (or fireballs resulting from nuclear-weapon-sized detonations of …

Very low strengths of interplanetary meteoroids and small asteroids

O Popova, J Borovička, WK Hartmann… - … & Planetary Science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We have assembled data on 13 cases of meteorite falls with accurate tracking data on
atmospheric passage. In all cases, we estimate the bulk strength of the object corresponding …

On the proposed interstellar origin of the USG 20140108 fireball

PG Brown, J Borovička - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A critical review of the evidence for the interstellar origin of the USG 20140108 fireball is
presented. Examining United States Government (USG) fireball velocities where …

Phosphine generation pathways on rocky planets

A Omran, C Oze, B Jackson, C Mehta, LM Barge… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The possibility of life in the venusian clouds was proposed in the 1960s, and recently this
hypothesis has been revived with the potential detection of phosphine (PH3) in Venus' …

[HTML][HTML] A fragment-cloud model for asteroid breakup and atmospheric energy deposition

LF Wheeler, PJ Register, DL Mathias - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
As asteroids break up during atmospheric entry, they deposit energy that can be seen in
flares of light and, if substantial enough, can produce damaging blast waves. Analytic …