What if Asteroid Bennu hit Earth? 09FEB2025

What if Asteroid Bennu hit Earth? 

What if Asteroid Bennu hit Earth?

Kelley, Kizer Whitt, EarthSky, February 7, 2025

https://earthsky.org/space/what-if-bennu-hit-earth-simulations/

"Asteroid Bennu is a 1,640-foot-wide (500-meter-wide)

space rock that has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth

in September 2182.”

More about asteroid 2024 YR4

Odds of an asteroid impact in 2032 just went up.

Here's why experts say you shouldn't worry

"We are still at 97.7% chance of a miss from this asteroid."

Robert Lea, SpaceCom, https://www.space.com/asteroid-2024yr4-odds-increase-no-concern

Why the Odds of an Asteroid Striking Earth in 2032 Keep Going Up (and Down).

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the

space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

New York Times, Robin George Andrews, February 8, 2025, paywalled

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/science/asteroid-yr4-2024-impact-odds.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Impact origin of Grand canyons on the Moon. 07FEB2025

 Impact origin of Grand canyons on the Moon.

Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon

Charles Q. Choi, SpaceCom, February 4, 2025

https://www.space.com/the-universe/moon/bullet-fast-moon-rocks-carved-2-lunar-gorges-deeper-than-the-grand-canyon

The open access paper is:

Kring, D.A., Kallenborn, D.P. & Collins, G.S. Grand canyons on the Moon.

Nat Commun 16, 1146 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55675-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55675-z

Yours,

Paul H.

Astronomers are tracking an asteroid PHA 2024 YR4 that could hit Earth in 2032 02FEB2025

 Astronomers are tracking an asteroid PHA 2024YR4 that could hit Earth in 2032

-Potentially Hazardous Asteroid, PHA 2024 YR4

Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032

Scott Neuman, Nationalk Public radio, February 2, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/02/nx-s1-5282071/asteroid-meteor-2024-nasa-earth

Active IAWN Notification, International Asteroid Warning Network

https://iawn.net/index.shtml

Potential for Impact of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4 on 22 December 2032

https://iawn.net/documents/NOTIFICATIONS/IAWN_Potential_Impact_Notification_2024_YR4.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway 25JAN2025

 Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway

By Jackie Wattles, CNN, January 22, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/science/meteorite-strike-doorbell-camera/index.html

See – And Hear – Meteorite Crash To Earth

Weather Channel, January 21, 2025

https://weather.com/science/space/video/see-and-hear-meteorite-crash-to-earth-on-sidewalk

Shocking thing:' Watch first-of-its-kind video of meteorite crashing outside a home

Amaris Encinas, USA Today, January 23, 2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/01/23/meteorite-strikes-earth-charlottetown-canada-video/77910791007/

Yours,

Paul H.

Fossil Ivory Smuggler Facing Prison in Russia 18JAN2025

Fossil Ivory Smuggler Facing Prison in Russia

Smuggling fossil ivory doesn’t pay in Russia.

‘Ice ivory’ smuggler foiled in Russia – officials (PHOTO)

https://www.rt.com/russia/610015-mammoth-tusk-smuggling-russia/

One more article is:

The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush

Sabrina Weiss, Wired, November 8, 2019

https://www.wired.com/story/mammoth-tusk-hunters-russia-china/

Yours,

Paul H.

Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are 08JAN2025

 Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are

The public needs context about unreviewed manuscripts, survey suggests

Jeffrey Brainard, Science Advisor, SAA, January 6, 2025

https://www.science.org/content/article/preprints-often-make-news-many-people-don-t-know-what-they-are

The open access paper is:

Fleerackers, A., Ratcliff, C.L., Wicke, R., King, A.J. and Jensen, J.D., 2024.

Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed

research in the news. Public Understanding of Science, p.09636625241268881.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09636625241268881

Yours,

Paul H.

Man Keeps a Rock For Years Hoping It's Gold. It Turns Out to Be Meteorite (Australia)

Man Keeps a Rock For Years Hoping It's Gold. It Turns Out to Be Meteorite (Australia)

Man Keeps a Rock For Years Hoping It's Gold.

It Turns Out to Be Far More Valuable.

By Jacinta Bowler, ScienceAlert, November 29, 2024

https://www.sciencealert.com/man-keeps-a-rock-for-years-hoping-its-gold-it-turns-out-to-be-far-more-valuable

Yours,

Paul H.

Recent Discussion of Younger Dryas impact Hypothesis 20NOV2024

 Recent Discussion of Younger Dryas impact Hypothesis

Hi,

Unsurprisingly, Sweatman, Powell, and West have replied to Holliday et

al. (2023)’s refutation of the YDIH with Sweatman et al. (2024). In response,

Holliday and associates replied with Holliday et al. (2024) and an open access

supplementary material, YDIH Skeptics (2024).

The publications are:

Holliday, V.T., Daulton, T.L., Bartlein, P.J., Boslough, M.B., Breslawski, R.P.,

Fisher, A.E., Jorgeson, I.A., Scott, A.C., Koeberl, C., Marlon, J.R. and

Severinghaus, J., 2023. Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas

Impact Hypothesis (YDIH). Earth-Science Reviews, 247, p.104502.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825223001915

Sweatman, M.B., Powell, J.L. and West, A., 2024. Rejection of Holliday

et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis.

Earth-Science Reviews, 258, p.104960.

paywalled at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825224002897

Holliday, V.T., Daulton, T.L., Bartlein, P.J., Boslough, M.B., Breslawski, R.P.,

Fisher, A.E., Jorgeson, I.A., Scott, A.C., Koeberl, C., Marlon, J.R. and

Severinghaus, J., 2024. Rebuttal of Sweatman, Powell, and West's “Rejection

of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis”.

Earth-Science Reviews, 258, p.104961.

paywalled at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825224002897

YDIH Skeptics. 2024. Additional material related to our rebuttal of Sweatman,

Powell, and West's comment on Holliday, et al. (2023) Comprehensive refutation

of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH), Earth-Science

Reviews vol. 247 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104502. Zenodo.

open access at https://zenodo.org/records/13924289

I wonder how much time and money has been spent researching, debating, writing,

and publishing on this topic.

Yours,

Paul

Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars 18NOV2024

 Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars

Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars

The 742-million-year-old rock was ejected into space by an asteroid impact.

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, November 14, 2024

https://www.popsci.com/science/mars-meteorite-found-in-drawer/

Tremblay, M.M., Mark, D.F., Barfod, D.N., Cohen, B.E., Ickert, R.B., Lee, M.R., 

Tomkinson, T. and Smith, C.L., 2024. Dating recent aqueous activity on Mars. 

Geochemical Perspectives Letters. open access

https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2443/

https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/documents/GPL2443_SIonly.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

Haasttse-baad Tessera Ring Complex: A Valhalla-Type Impact Structure on Venus? 05NOV2024

Haasttse-baad Tessera Ring Complex: A Valhalla-Type Impact Structure on Venus?

A Hidden Breed of Impact Craters Has Been Lurking on Venus Undetected

Michelle Starr, Science Alert, November 5, 2024

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-hidden-breed-of-impact-craters-has-been-lurking-on-venus-undetected

Study of Venus's Haasttse-baad Tessera suggests formation by two large impacts

PhysOrg, November 5, 2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-venus-haasttse-baad-tessera-formation.html

López, I., Bjonnes, E. and Hansen, V.L., 2024. Haasttse‐baad Tessera Ring

Complex: A Valhalla‐Type Impact Structure on Venus?. Journal of Geophysical

Research: Planets, 129(10), no .e2023JE008256. open access

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023JE008256

Yours,

Paul H.

Ancient rocks may be dark matter detector 03NOV2024

Ancient rocks may be dark matter detector

Ancient rocks may bring dark matter to light

With new imaging capabilities, the first successful

dark-matter detector might be some old rock.

Virgina Tech, Kelly Izlar, October 30, 2024

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/10/science-ancient-rocks-dark-matter.html

Science has found its first candidate for a dark-matter detector

It’s a really old rock.  Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible

substance makes up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe.

Julia Musto, The Guardian, November 1, 2024

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dark-matter-detecting-space-rock-b2639726.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Mysterious unidentified fireball lights up sky from California to Texas - September 24, 2024 31OCT2024

 Mysterious unidentified fireball lights up sky from California to Texas - September 24, 2024

Very bright fireball seen from Oregon, Washington,

Nevada, and California, over 200 reports filed

Rishav Kothari, The Watchers, September 25, 2024

https://watchers.news/2024/09/25/very-bright-fireball-seen-from-oregon-washington-nevada-and-california-over-200-reports-filed/

Mysterious unidentified fireball lights up sky from California to Texas

Patrick Reilly, MSN, September 25, 2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mysterious-unidentified-fireball-lights-up-sky-from-california-to-texas/ar-BB1qVfuf

Asteroid Enters As Fireball Over California Skies Right After Its Discovery; Video Surfaces

It's the third asteroid this year whose impact was predicted.

By Harsh Vardhan, Mashable, October 25, 2024

https://in.mashable.com/science/84341/asteroid-enters-as-fireball-over-california-skies-right-after-its-discovery-video-surfaces

Yours,

Paul H.

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth? 22OCT2024

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?

Anne J, Manning, The Haravrd Gazette, October 21, 2024

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/what-happened-when-a-meteorite-the-size-of-four-mount-everests-hit-earth/

The open access paper is:

Drabon, N., Knoll, A.H., Lowe, D.R., and Mucciarone, D.A.

2024, Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean surface environments and life. Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences. 121 (44) e2408721121 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408721121

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2408721121

Yours,

Paul H.

The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites 16OCT2024

 The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites

The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites have been found

Seventy percent of meteorites can be linked to a just a handful of asteroid

belt collisions, By Robin George Andrews, ScienceNews, October 16, 2024

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/origins-earths-meteorites-found

New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from

a single source, Trevor Ireland, The Conversation, October 16, 2024

https://theconversation.com/new-research-shows-most-space-rocks-crashing-into-earth-come-from-a-single-source-241455

The open access preprints are:

Brož, M., Vernazza, P., Marsset, M., DeMeo, F.E., Binzel, R.P., Vokrouhlický,

D. and Nesvorný, D., 2024. Young asteroid families as the primary source

of meteorites. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08552.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08552

Marsset, M., Vernazza, P., Brož, M., Thomas, C.A., DeMeo, F.E., Burt, B.,

Binzel, R.P., Reddy, V., McGraw, A., Avdellidou, C. and Carry, B., 2024.

The Massalia asteroid family as the origin of ordinary L chondrites. arXiv

preprint arXiv:2403.08548.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08548

Yours,

Paul H.

Kamil Crater, Egypt, "Strip-mined" and Destroyed by Meteorite Criminals 13OCT2024

Kamil Crater, Egypt, "Strip-mined" and Destroyed by Meteorite Criminals 13OCT2024

by Paul V. Heinrich

Kamil Impact Crater 2023 showing destruction and in 2020.
Imagery © 2024 Google Earth / CNES/ Airbus
Click on image to enlarge.

I was looking at Wikipedia at the write up about the Kamil Crater at 22° 1'5.89"N latitude and 26° 5'15.69"E longitude. A recent addition to the Wikipedia article by Enrique Díaz-Martínez, Spain at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamil_Crater
states:
"According to evidence provided by Google Earth images, Kamil crater morphology and its prototypical rayed structure (well-preserved radiating features) have been destroyed between 2020 and 2023, most probably due to exhaustive plundering of meteorite fragments. The last image of the well preserved crater is of February 2020, whereas it is fully destroyed in the next image dated May 2023, so it was destroyed between those two dates. The size of the wheel tracks visible on trails to/from the former crater indicate that heavy machinery was used for the collection of meteoritic material.”

The Wikipedia update note was added on October 10, 2024 by Enrique Díaz-Martínez, Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kamil_Crater&diff=prev&oldid=1250464561

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ediazmartinez

I looked at the Google Earth images and essentially agree with what is written. Although the exact timeline is open to interpretation, the aerial images do show that this crater, which is a protected site, has been destroyed by people illegally mining it presumably for iron meteorite fragments and spherules. Heavy machinery, presumably electromagnets, and other methods were used to vandalize, desecrate, and otherwise destroy this irreplaceable part of the Egypt's geological heritage for personal gain.

Undoubtedly, these stolen Egyptian meteorites are already in the marketplace for sale somewhere.

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Fireball Movie Question- Korea Expedition for Antarctic Meteorites, KOREAMET 08OCT2024

Fireball Movie Question- Korea Expedition for Antarctic Meteorites, KOREAMET  08OCT2024

In [meteorite-list] Fireball Movie Question on Tue, 01 Oct. 2024, Rhett Bourland asked:

>My question is, does anyone know what meteorite they found?

I was not able to determine an answer to this question. A more detailed examination of the below papers might help.

>If you don't know, can someone point me towards some information about the material found by the South Korean team over the years?


I found a few publications using Google Scholar searching for-
"Korea Expedition for Antarctic Meteorites" / "KOREAMET”.

Some of these reports are archived at the "KOPRI depository" at
https://repository.kopri.re.kr/simple-search?query=KOREAMET

KOPRI stands for "Korea Polar Research Institute of Marine Research”.

They include:

이종익, 2009. 2006-2008 Korea Expedition for Antarctic Meteorites (KOREAMET). 

지질학회지, 45(6), pp.621-637.
https://repository.kopri.re.kr/bitstream/201206/6643/1/2010_5_3_2010-003.pdf

최변각, 박창근, 안인수 and 이종익, 2009. Classification and petrological and geochemical characteristics of Antarctic meteorites found by 1st, 2nd and 3rd KOREAMET. 지질학회지,
45(6), pp.593-605.

Park, C., Baek, J., Ha, S., Nagao, K., Park, S., Ahn, I., Moon, J.J., Yoo, I.S. and Lee, J.I., 2015. 

Report on classification of Antarctic meteorites from the 2014/15 KOREAMET season.
https://repository.kopri.re.kr/bitstream/201206/7137/1/221507.pdf

Yours.

Paul H.

This Might Be the Weirdest Rock Ever Found on Mars 25SEP2024

 This Might Be the Weirdest Rock Ever Found on Mars

Perseverance rover spots unusual striped rock on Mars

by Athanasios Klidaras, NASA, PhysOrg, September 23, 2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-perseverance-rover-unusual-striped-mars.html

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Captures a Peculiar Rock

with a Striped Pattern, Jackson Chung, September 20, 2024

https://www.techeblog.com/nasa-perseverance-mars-rover-striped-rock/

This Might Be the Weirdest Rock Ever Found on Mars

It's unlike anything ever seen on the Red Planet, but NASA hopes to

find more like it as the Perseverance rover continues its climb up

Jezero Crater. By Adam Kovac, September 24, 2024

https://gizmodo.com/this-might-be-the-weirdest-rock-ever-found-on-mars-2000502262

Yours,

Paul H.

"Suspicious" landform under investigation as possible impact crater

"Suspicious" landform under investigation as possible impact crater

  He saw a suspicious pit on Google Maps. Experts say it could be a crater from an ancient space rock 'Looking at the topography, it's very suggestive of impact,' says French scientist. ...
Rachel Watts, CBC News, Sep 05, 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-meteorite-impact-crater-1.7313418

The Google Earth coordinates are likely 51.236483° -64.696877°

Yours,

Paul H.

Moroccan meteorite merchants suspected of smuggling money abroad 25AUG2024

Moroccan meteorite merchants suspected of smuggling money abroad
Hespress English, August 24, 2024

https://en.hespress.com/90121-moroccan-meteorite-merchants-suspected-of-smuggling-money-abroad.html

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/moroccan-meteorite-merchants-suspected-of-smuggling-money-abroad/ar-AA1pmTZR?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

Yours,

Paul H.

NASA rover discovers mysterious Mars boulder unlike any others - Anorthosite? 19JUN2024

NASA rover discovers mysterious Mars boulder unlike any others - Anorthosite?

NASA rover discovers mysterious Mars boulder unlike any others
Elisha Sauers, Mashable, June 15, 2024
https://mashable.com/article/nasa-mars-rover-boulder-discovery


NASA’s Perseverance Fords an Ancient River to Reach Science Target
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, June 13, 2024
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-fords-an-ancient-river-to-reach-science-target

Yours,

Paul H.