Evidence of dinosaur-killing asteroid impact found on the moon 03OCT2022

Evidence of dinosaur-killing asteroid impact found on the moon

Earth Asteroid Impacts Mirrored on Moon – Including the Dinosaur Killer
Curtain University, SciTechDaily, September 29, 2022
https://scitechdaily.com/earth-asteroid-impacts-mirrored-on-moon-including-the-dinosaur-killer/


Evidence of dinosaur-killing asteroid impact found on the moon
By Robert Lea, spaceCom, September 29, 2022
https://www.space.com/asteroid-impact-record-lunar-glass


The open access paper is:

Tao Long, Yuqi Qian, Marc D. Norman, Katarina Miljkovic, Carolyn
Crow, James W. Head, Xiaochao Che, Romain Tartèse, Nicolle
Zellner, Xuefeng Yu, Shiwen Xie, Martin Whitehouse, Katherine H.
Joy, Clive R. Neal, Joshua F. Snape, Guisheng Zhou, Shoujie Liu,
Chun Yang, Zhiqing Yang, Chen Wang, Long Xiao, Dunyi Liu and
Alexander Nemchin, 2022. Constraining the formation and transport
of lunar impact glasses using the ages and chemical compositions
of Chang’e-5 glass beads. Science Advances. 8 (39).
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq2542


Related articles

China’s Chang’e-5 Samples Reveal Key Age of Moon Rocks –
First Fresh Lunar Samples in More Than 40 Years
Washington University In St. Louis, October 9, 2019
https://scitechdaily.com/chinas-change-5-samples-reveal-key-age-of-moon-rocks-first-fresh-lunar-samples-in-more-than-40-years/


Yours,

Paul H.

Meteor Crater, AZ: The impact crater that keeps on giving 21SEP2022

Meteor crater, AZ: The impact crater that keeps on giving

Meteor Crater, AZ: The hole from space that keeps on giving
By Leonard David, SpaceCom, August 25, 2022
https://www.space.com/meteor-crater-hole-from-space-lunar-surface

Research payoffs from the out-of-this-world Meteor Crater are ongoing.

Yours,

Paul H.

The disease that can be contracted by breathing California’s air 21SEP2022

The disease that can be contracted by breathing California’s air

‘It took everything’: the disease that can be
contracted by breathing California’s air
Dani Anguiano, The Guardian, August, 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/california-valley-fever-disease-climate-crisis

https://www.watereducation.org/aquafornia-news/it-took-everything-disease-can-be-contracted-breathing-californias-air


Yours,

Paul H.

August 2022 Utah Meteorite Fall 30AUG2022

August 2022 Utah Meteorite Fall

Piece of meteorite that created boom over
Utah gifted to University of Utah, Fox 13
By: Spencer Joseph, August 23, 2022
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/piece-of-meteorite-that-created-boom-over-utah-gifted-to-university-of-utah

The source of a resounding boom over Salt
Lake City? Probably a meteor. Satellite
imagery and a video from a Utah ski resort
helped solve the case of the mysterious noise
By Zach Rosenthal, The Washington Post, August 15, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/15/utah-fireball-meteor-asteroid/

Meteorite hunters find what is believed to be
pieces of meteorite boom, KSL 5 TV, August 18, 2022,
https://ksltv.com/503099/meteorite-hunters-find-what-is-believed-to-be-pieces-of-meteorite-boom/

Meteor causes loud boom heard across northern Utah,
National Weather Service says, KSL 5 TV, Aug 13, 2022,
https://ksltv.com/502511/meteor-causes-loud-boom-heard-across-northern-utah/

Footage of meteor over Snowbasin Resort released
By Ryan Bittan, ABC 4COM, Aug 13, 2022
https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/loud-boom-homes-shake-after-possible-meteor/

Exploding meteor startles Utah
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science, August 15, 2022
https://www.livescience.com/utah-boom-meteor

Yours,

Paul H.

Impact Earth: A review of the terrestrial impact record - 2022 Open Access review paper 21AUG2022

Osinski, G.R., Grieve, R.A., Ferrière, L., Losiak, A., Pickersgill, A.,Cavosie, A.J., Hibbard, S.M., Hill, P., Bermudez, J.J., Marion, C.L. and Newman, J.D., 2022. Impact Earth: A review of the terrestrial impact record. Earth-Science Reviews, no. 104112. Open access-
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825222001969

Researchgate PDF version of above paper.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362170171_Impact_Earth_A_review_of_the_terrestrial_impact_record

Richard F. Grieve papers
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard-Grieve

Gordon R. Osinski papers
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gordon-Osinski

Yours,

Paul H.

Moon rocks found to contain possible Earth gas 19AUG2022

Moon rocks found to contain possible Earth gas

Moon rocks found in Antarctica include tiny amounts of
gas that may have come from Earth By Robert Lea, Space
https://www.space.com/moon-meteorites-noble-gases-from-earth

Yours,

Paul H.

Pingualuit Crater, Canada 28JUL2022

Pingualuit Crater, Canada

An icy mystery deep in Arctic Canada
BBC - Travel April 4, 2022
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220403-an-icy-mystery-deep-in-arctic-canada

Pingualuit Crater
https://craterexplorer.ca/pingualuit-impact-crater/

Pingualuit Crater, Canada
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/8472/pingualuit-crater-canada


Yours,

Paul H.

Meteor impact damaged James Webb Space Telescope's mirror 28JUL2022

Meteor impact damaged James Webb Space Telescope's mirror

Meteor impact left 'uncorrectable' damage to
the Webb telescope's mirror, new report shows
Fortunately, engineers planned for this.
By Brandon Specktor, Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/james-webb-space-telescope-micrometeoroid-picture


Characterization of JWST science performance from commissioning
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European Space
Agency, and Canadian Space Agency, arxiv, July 12, 2022
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2207/2207.05632.pdf


Yours,

Paul

Next Possible Use for Fake Meteorites 21JUL2022

Next Possible Use for Fake Meteorites

After someone tried the inside of hollowed out trees, I am
surprised that this happened.

Spanish police seize tonne of cocaine hidden in fake stones
RTE, Spain, June 4, 2019
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2019/0604/1053345-drugs-seized-spain/

Yours,

Paul H.

First released image from the Webb deep space scope 12JUL2022

First released image from the Webb deep space scope

First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet

A full set of Webb James Webb Space Telescope’s
first full-color images and spectroscopic data during
a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT
14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-updates-coverage-for-webb-telescope-s-first-images-reveal


Yours,

Paul H.

View and search online for US geologic maps using USGS map viewer 11JUL2022

View and search online for US geologic maps using USGS map viewer

You can now view and search online for geologic
maps for the United States with the USGS National
Geologic Map Database Viewer (Beta Version).
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/mapview/?center=-97,39.6&zoom=4

Different scale geologic maps show at different
magnifications. Also, the "Filter Maps by the Following
Scale Bin" menu needs to be used to view different scale
geologic maps.

Wetumpka, Alabama
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/mapview/?center=-86.181,32.524&zoom=13

Sierra Madera, Pecos County, Texas
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/mapview/?center=-102.908,30.6&zoom=13

Yours,

Paul H.

Behold the Weird Physics of Double-Impact Asteroids 10JUL2022

Behold the Weird Physics of Double-Impact Asteroids

Behold the Weird Physics of Double-Impact Asteroids
Mars is littered with craters made by binary asteroids.
These collisions are as intriguing as they are powerful.
Jonathan O,Callaghan, Wired Magazine, June 27, 2022
https://www.wired.com/story/mars-binary-asteroid-craters/

An amusing tale.

The Giant, Prehistoric Squid That Ate Common Sense
Brian Switek, Wired Magazine, Oct. 2011
https://www.wired.com/2011/10/the-giant-prehistoric-squid-that-ate-common-sense/

Yours,

Paul H.

New double crater seen on the moon 28JUN2022

New double crater seen on the moon

Found: Booster impact Crater on the Farside of the Moon.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission has found the
impact site created March 4th. The crater might help reveal
the impactor’s identity. Sky and Telescope, June 27, 2022
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/impact-crater-farside-moon/

New double crater seen on the moon after mystery
rocket impact By Ashley Strickland and Katie Hunt,
CNN, June 27, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/world/rocket-moon-impact-crater-scn/index.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Georgiaites, Tektites from Georgia 22JUN2022

Georgiaites, Tektites from Georgia

14J: Georgiaites, Tektites from Georgia. By Thomas Thurman
https://www.georgiasfossils.com/14j-georgias-tektites-georgiaites.html

Georgia fossils By Thomas Thurman
https://www.georgiasfossils.com/2-trilobites-500-million-years-ago.html

Related publications:

Harris, R. S., 2009, Upper Eocene Impact Stratigraphy
of the Georgia Coastal Plain. Department of Geosciences,
Georgia State University. Georgia Geological Society
Guidebook, Volume 29, pgs 25-34, 2009
https://www.westga.edu/~ggsweb/ggspubs/guidebooks_cd/2009/GGS2009.pdf

https://www.westga.edu/~ggsweb/fieldtrip/fieldtrips.html


Harris, R.S., 2003, March. Re-Evaluating the Origin
of an Upper Eocene Diamictite in the Coastal Plain
of East-Central Georgia: An Impactoclastic Layer?.
In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (p. 1965).
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2003/pdf/1965.pdf


Yours,

Paul H.

New papers about hypothetical, Pleistocene Saginaw Bay impact 12MAY2022

New papers about hypothetical, Pleistocene Saginaw Bay impact

The Geological Society of America recently published two new Papers arguing for a hypothetical, Pleistocene Saginaw Bay impact
In their “In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton: New Ideas in Earth Science” volume. They are:



Davias, M.E., and Harris, T.H.S., 2022, Postulating an unconventional location for the missing mid-Pleistocene transition impact: Repaving North America with a cavitated regolith blanket while dispatching Australasian tektites and giving Michigan a thumb, in Foulger, G.R., Hamilton, L.C., Jurdy, D.M., Stein, C.A., Howard, K.A., and Stein, S., eds., In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton:
New Ideas in Earth Science: Geological Society of America Special Paper 553, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2553(24).
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/book/2323/chapter/132525009/Postulating-an-unconventional-location-for-the


Harris, T.H.S., 2022, Terrestrial ejecta suborbital transport and the rotating frame transform, in Foulger, G.R., Hamilton, L.C., Jurdy,
D.M., Stein, C.A., Howard, K.A., and Stein, S., eds., In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton: New Ideas in Earth Science:
Geological Society of America Special Paper 553, p. 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2553(23). (open access)
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/book/2323/chapter/132758923/Terrestrial-ejecta-suborbital-transport-and-the


Klokočník, J., Bezděk, A., and Kostelecký, J., 2022, Gravity field aspects for identification of cosmic impact structures on Earth, in
Foulger, G.R., Hamilton, L.C., Jurdy, D.M., Stein, C.A., Howard, K.A., and Stein, S., eds., In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton:
New Ideas in Earth Science: Geological Society of America Special Paper 553, p. 251–260, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2553(21).
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/book/2323/chapter/132964534/Gravity-field-aspects-for-identification-of-cosmic

https://www.asu.cas.cz/~jklokocn/spe553-21-final.pdf


The seemingly annual conference presentations by M. E. Davias, about their ideas can be found on their web pages at:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Davias-2/research

Enjoy,

Paul H.

Impacts that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions 12APR2022

Impacts that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions

New open access paper about mass extinctions.

Pankhurst, M.J., Stevenson, C.J. and Coldwell, B.C., 2021. Meteorites
that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions.
Journal of the Geological Society. 179, jgs2021-055, 1 December 2021,
https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-055
https://jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/179/3/jgs2021-055

Yours,

Paul H.

Distinguishing volcanic from impact glasses 06MAR2022

Distinguishing volcanic from impact glasses

Ferrière, L., Crósta, A.P., Wegner, W., Libowitzky, E.,
Iwashita, F. and Koeberl, C., 2021. Distinguishing
volcanic from impact glasses—The case of the Cali glass
(Colombia). Geology, 49(12), pp.1421-1425.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354386557_Distinguishing_volcanic_from_impact_glasses-The_case_of_the_Cali_glass_Colombia


More papers by Dr. Crosta at:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alvaro-Crosta/research

Another paper about impact glasses is:

Schultz, P.H., Harris, R.S., Perroud, S., Blanco, N. and
Tomlinson, A.J., 2022. Widespread glasses generated
by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the
Atacama Desert, Chile. Geology, 50(2), pp.205-209.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/50/2/205/609354/Widespread-glasses-generated-by-cometary-fireballs


Yours,

Paul H.

Geologic Names and Usage: A Guide to (North American) Stratigraphic Nomenclature 05MAR2022

Geologic Names and Usage: A Guide to (North American) Stratigraphic Nomenclature

Below is a recording of an interesting webinar about North American
Stratigraphic Nomenclature.

Geologic Names and Usage: A Guide to Stratigraphic Nomenclature
American Geosciences Institute, webinar, March 4, 2022
https://www.americangeosciences.org/webinars/geologic-names-usage-stratigraphic-nomenclature


Geologic Names and Usage: A Guide to Stratigraphic Nomenclature
Youtube version of above video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O47p8xLkHmA


More videos are available from American Geosciences Institute's YouTube
channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanGeosciences/videos


There is also:

Geolex — Stratigraphic Resources
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/stratres

North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature,
2005. North American stratigraphic code. AAPG Bulletin, 89(11),
pp.1547-1591.
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/resources/docs/NACSN_Code_2021.pdf


Yours,

Paul H.

Satellite Spots Massive Asteroid Impact Crater in China 04MAR2022

Satellite Spots Massive Asteroid Impact Crater in China

Satellite Spots Massive Asteroid Impact Crater in China
Though missing some of its rim, the recently discovered
impact site is clearly recognizable from above.
By Isaac Schultz, Gizmodo,
https://gizmodo.com/satellite-spots-massive-asteroid-impact-crater-in-china-1848602154

Young Impact Crater Uncovered in Yilan, China
By Sara E. Pratt, SciTechDaily, March 3, 022
https://scitechdaily.com/young-impact-crater-uncovered-in-yilan-china/

Chen, M., Xie, X., Xiao, W. and Tan, D., 2019. Yilan crater, a
newly identified impact structure in northeast China. Chinese
Science Bulletin, 65(10), pp.948-954.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340299662_Yilan_crater_a_newly_identified_impact_structure_in_northeast_China

Chen, M., Koeberl, C., Tan, D., Ding, P., Xiao, W., Wang, N.,
Chen, Y. and Xie, X., 2021. Yilan crater, China: Evidence for
an origin by meteorite impact. Meteoritics & Planetary Science,
56(7), pp.1274-1292.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353551842_Yilan_crater_China_Evidence_for_an_origin_by_meteorite_impact


More papers by Xie Xiande, Chinese Academy of Sciences
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xie-Xiande


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.