A way of thinking about success in science. 28JUL2020

 A way of thinking about success in science.

Bornmann, L. and Marx, W., 2012. The Anna Karenina

principle: A way of thinking about success in science.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

and Technology, 63(10), pp.2037-2051.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262244678_The_A_nna_K_arenina_principle_A_way_of_thinking_about_success_in_science

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=22E2708752B0C09A2E82314D6CB3971E?doi=10.1.1.687.2026&rep=rep1&type=pdf

A related paper:

Marx, W. and Bornmann, L., 2013. The emergence

of plate tectonics and the Kuhnian model of paradigm

shift: a bibliometric case study based on the Anna

Karenina principle. Scientometrics, 94(2), pp.595-614.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257662913_The_emergence_of_plate_tectonics_and_the_Kuhnian_model_of_paradigm_shift_A_bibliometric_case_study_based_on_the_Anna_Karenina_principle

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lutz_Bornmann/4

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.687.5707&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Researchgate page for Lutz Bornmann

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lutz_Bornmann

Yours,

Paul H.

Buried impact crater beneath the Everglades, Florida? 23JUL2020

 Buried impact crater beneath the Everglades, Florida?

The below paper proposes the possibility that a buried

 impact crater underlie the Everglades. there should be

enough data around to test.

 

Petuch, E.J., 1987. The Florida Everglades: A Buried

Pseudoatoll?. Journal of Coastal Research, pp.189-200.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7ec5/d3b02541aafb82280c81c50ac87812fa95e5.pdf

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago 22JUL2020

 Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago

Asteroid shower rained space rocks on

Earth and the moon 800 million years ago

By Charles Q. Choi, SpaceCom, July 21, 2020

https://www.space.com/800-million-year-old-asteroid-shower-moon-earth.html

Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system

800 million years ago revealed by lunar craters

by Osaka University, PhysOrg, July 21, 2020

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-asteroid-shower-earth-moon-million-years.html

The open access paper is:

Terada, K., Morota, T. & Kato, M. Asteroid shower

on the Earth-Moon system immediately before

the Cryogenian period revealed by KAGUYA.

Nature Communications (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17115-6

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17115-6

Yours,

Paul H.

High Pressure Polymorph of Feldspar Discovered 14JUL2020

 High Pressure Polymorph of Feldspar Discovered

A new form of the rock-forming mineral discovered

High-pressure experiments reveal unknown variants

of common mineral by Amit Malewar, June 1, 2020

https://www.techexplorist.com/new-form-common-rock-forming-mineral-discovered/32716/

 

Pakhomova, A., Simonova, D., Koemets, I., Koemets,

E., Aprilis, G., Bykov, M., Gorelova, L., Fedotenko, T.,

Prakapenka, V. and Dubrovinsky, L., 2020.

Polymorphism of feldspars above 10 GPa. Nature

Communications, 11(1), pp.1-8.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16547-4

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Moon contains more metal than previously estimated 08JUL2020

 Moon contains more metal than previously estimated

Higher concentration of metal in Moon's

craters provides new insights to its origin

New observations could challenge previous

theories of how the Moon was formed

University of Southern California, July 1, 2020

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200701151724.htm

The paper is:

E. Heggy, E.M. Palmer, T.W. Thompson, B.J.

Thomson, G.W. Patterson. Bulk composition

of regolith fines on lunar crater floors: Initial

investigation by LRO/Mini-RF. Earth and

Planetary Science Letters, 2020; 541: 116274

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341324791_Bulk_composition_of_regolith_fines_on_lunar_crater_floors_Initial_investigation_by_LROMini-RF

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Essam_Heggy

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X2030217X

Yours,

Paul V.