New location proposed for Australasian strewnfield crater 05JAN2020

New location proposed for Australasian strewnfield crater

Crater found from asteroid that covered 10% of Earth's surface in debris. The crater sits beneath a plain of hardened lava that formed after the asteroid impact, which occurred nearly 800,000 years ago.
By Leslie Nemo, Astronomy, Friday, January 3, 2020
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/01/crater-found-from-asteroid-that-covered-10-of-earths-surface-in-debris

The open access paper is:

Sieh, K., Herrin, J., Jicha, B., Angel, D.S., Moore, J.D., Banerjee, P., Wiwegwin, W., Sihavong, V., Singer, B., Chualaowanich, T. and Charusiri, P., 2019. 

Australasian impact crater buried under the Bolaven volcanic field, Southern Laos. 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/12/24/1904368116.short

Yours,

Paul H.

Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries 21DEC2021

Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries

Quintero, R.R., Cavosie, A.J., Cox, M.A., Miljković, K. and Dugdale, A., 2021. 

Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries. 

Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI, Geological Society of America
Special Paper 550, pp. 41-69
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352849799_Australian_impact_cratering_record_Updates_and_recent_discoveries

Another paper:

Cavosie, A.J., Quintero, R.R., Radovan, H.A. and Moser, D.E., 2010. 

A record of ancient cataclysm in modern sand: Shock microstructures in detrital minerals from the Vaal
River, Vredefort Dome, South Africa. Bulletin, 122(11-12), pp.1968-1980.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249526675_A_record_of_ancient_cataclysm_in_modern_sand_Shock_microstructures_in_detrital_minerals_from_the_Vaal_River_Vredefort_Dome_South_Africa

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raiza-Quintero

Yours,

Paul H.

Citing the Referees at the Journal that Rejected You 28NOV2021

Citing the Referees at the Journal that Rejected You

Citing the Referees at the Journal that Rejected You
By Justin Weinberg, Dailynous, May 7, 2020
https://dailynous.com/2020/05/07/citing-referees-journal-rejected/

You may not like it when your article is rejected from a journal, but at least sometimes you get something
good out of it: criticism.

Yours,

Paul H.

Prehistoric Tunguska-sized Airburst in Jordan Valley 22SEP2021

Prehistoric Tunguska-sized Airburst in Jordan Valley

Bunch, T.E., LeCompte, M.A., Adedeji, A.V. et al. 

A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea. Sci Rep 11, 18632 (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97778-3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3

Yours,

Paul H.

OT: LIVE: Volcano erupts on La Palma in the Canary Islands 20SEP2021

OT: LIVE: Volcano erupts on La Palma in the Canary Islands

Not meteorites, but still cool geology, look at LIVE: Volcano erupts on La Palma in the Canary Islands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmQVquojJfo

I hope those are not urban lights in the foreground.
I do not know what the background chatter is about.

Stay Safe,

Paul

Photogrammetric documentation of geologic features with a smartphone 05SEP2021

Photogrammetric documentation of geologic features with a smartphone

Below is an open access paper about photogrammetric documentation of geologic features in the field with a smartphone.

Corradetti, A., Seers, T.D., Billi, A. and Tavani, S., 2021.
Virtual Outcrops in a Pocket: The Smartphone as a Fully Equipped Photogrammetric Data Acquisition Tool. GSA Today, 31(9)
https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Publications/GSA_Today/features/GSA/GSAToday/science/G506A/article.aspx

Related paper is:

Tavani, S., Corradetti, A., Granado, P., Snidero, M., Seers, T.D., and Mazzoli, S., 2019, 

Smartphone: An alternative to ground control points for orienting virtual outcrop models and assessing their quality: Geosphere, v. 15, p. 2043–2052,
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02167.1

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/15/6/2043/574968/Smartphone-An-alternative-to-ground-control-points

Yours,

Paul H.

‘Space junk’ crashes into Florida home from International Space Station, NASA says 18APR2024

‘Space junk’ crashes into Florida home from International Space Station, NASA says

‘Space junk’ crashes into Florida home from International Space Station, NASA says
ALcom, Apr. 16, 2024
https://www.al.com/news/2024/04/space-junk-crashes-into-florida-home-from-international-space-station-nasa-says.html

Object that slammed into Florida home was indeed space junk from ISS, NASA confirms
By Mike Wall, SpaceCom, , Apr. 15, 2024
https://www.space.com/object-crash-florida-home-iss-space-junk-nasa-confirms

Kessler Syndrome and the space debris problem
By Mike< SpaceCom, July 14, 2022
https://www.space.com/kessler-syndrome-space-debris

This feared space-junk cascade called Kessler Syndrome may have already begun.

Yours,

Paul H.

Chinese space junk falls to Earth over Southern California, creating spectacular fireball (photos, video) 03APR2024

Chinese space junk falls to Earth over Southern California, creating spectacular fireball (photos, video)
Mike Wall, Space.Com, April 7, 2024
https://www.space.com/chinese-space-junk-fall-fireball-shenzhou-15

Yours,

Paul H.