Moment meteor breaks up off Tasmanian coast captured on ship camera 15NOV2022

Moment meteor breaks up off Tasmanian coast captured on ship camera
The Guardian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIpbf88lEJc

Paul H.

Ejection site of the oldest Martian meteorite found 30OCT2022

Ejection site of the oldest Martian meteorite found

There are 94 million craters on Mars. Scientists found the one this

meteorite

by Anthony Lagain, The Conversation, PhysOrg, July 13, 2022

called

homehttps://phys.org/news/2022-07-million-craters-mars-scientists-meteorite.html

Researchers Identify Water Rich Meteorite Linked To Mars Crust

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/mars20130103.html

Open access paper is:

Lagain, A., Bouley, S., Zanda, B., Miljkovic, K., Rajsic, A.,

Baratoux, D., Payre, V., Doucet, L.S., Timms, N.E., Hewins,

R. and Benedix, G.K., 2022. Early crustal processes revealed

by the ejection site of the oldest martian meteorite. Nature

communications, 13(1), pp.1-8.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31444-8

Yours,

Paul H.

NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Mars 29OCT2022

 NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Mars

NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Mars

NASA, JPL, press release, October 27, 2022

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-insight-lander-detects-stunning-meteoroid-impact-on-mars

NASA spacecraft records epic ‘marsquakes’ as it prepares to die

InSight lander reports largest-ever meteorite strikes on Mars, and

scientists wish it a fond farewell.

by Aleandra Wetiz, Nature, October 27, 2022

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03447-4

Yang, Y., and Chen, C., 2022. A seismic meteor strike on Mars. Science.

378(6618), pp. 360-361 DOI: 10.1126/science.add85

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add8574

Something Violently Shook the Surface of Mars. It Came From Space.

by Kenneth Change, New York Times, October 27, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/science/mars-meteorites-impacts-seismic.html

Yours,

Paul H.

The Science Behind Graham Hancock’s “Ancient Apocalypse 26OCT2022

 The Science Behind Graham Hancock’s “Ancient Apocalypse

The Science Behind Graham Hancock’s “Ancient Apocalypse
Dr. Mark Boslough, blog, October 23, 2022
https://www.boslough.us/blog/ancient-apocalypse-graham-hancock-ydih-dryas
https://www.boslough.us/blog

Mark Boslough's PubPeer PAge
https://pubpeer.com/publications/9D7247C13B6A0ACA3E812D4DAECB0B

Mark Boslough on Graham Hancock’s “Ancient Apocalypse”
(forthcoming, Nov 2022), Ma'at PAge October 24
http://www.maatforum.com/forum/read.php?5,633367

Yours,

Paul H.

Asteroid That Formed Earth’s Largest Crater Bigger Than Previously Believed 25OCT2022

 Asteroid That Formed Earth’s Largest Crater Bigger Than Previously Believed

15 Miles in Diameter – Asteroid That Formed Earth’s

Largest Crater Bigger Than Previously Believed

University Of Rochester, October15, 2022

https://scitechdaily.com/15-miles-in-diameter-asteroid-that-formed-earths-largest-crater-bigger-than-previously-believed/

The open access paper is:

Allen, N.H., Nakajima, M., Wünnemann, K.,

Helhoski, S. and Trail, D., 2022. A revision of

the formation conditions of the Vredefort crater.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 127(8),

no. e2022JE007186.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022JE007186

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1029/2022JE007186

Yours,

Paul H.

What to Do During an Earthquake 13OCT2022

 What to Do During an Earthquake

What to Do During an Earthquake

https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/y1jcoe/my_department_has_a_reminder_for_what_to_do/

Yours,

Paul H.

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.