Lunar Impact Glasses: Probing the Moon's Surface and Constraining its Impact History

Earth and Moon impact flux increased at the end of the Paleozoic

(2019) Sara Mazrouei et al.   SCIENCE

Geochemistry of a confirmed Precambrian impact ejecta deposit: The Grænsesø spherule layer, South Greenland

(2019) Matthew S. Huber et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

The future of Genesis science

(2019) D. S. Burnett et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Terra-mare comparison of small young craters on the Moon

(2019) A. Kereszturi et al.   ICARUS

No Change in the Recent Lunar Impact Flux Required Based on Modeling of Impact Glass Spherule Age Distributions

(2018) Ya-Huei Huang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The timeline of the lunar bombardment: Revisited

(2018) A. Morbidelli et al.   ICARUS

On the history of the early meteoritic bombardment of the Moon: Was there a terminal lunar cataclysm?

(2018) Greg Michael et al.   ICARUS

Signatures of the Martian regolith components entrained in some impact-melt glasses in shergottites

(2018) M. N. Rao et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Cataclysm No More: New Views on the Timing and Delivery of Lunar Impactors

(2017) Nicolle E. B. Zellner   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu

(2017) D. S. Lauretta et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Heterogeneous impact transport on the Moon

(2017) Ya-Huei Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Do lunar and meteoritic archives record temporal variations in the composition of solar wind noble gases and nitrogen? A reassessment in the light of Genesis data

(2016) Rainer Wieler   CHEMIE DER ERDE-GEOCHEMISTRY

Crystal accumulation in a 4.2 Ga lunar impact melt

(2016) M.D. Norman et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Quantifying crater production and regolith overturn on the Moon with temporal imaging

(2016) Emerson J. Speyerer et al.   NATURE

A new ∼3.46Ga asteroid impact ejecta unit at Marble Bar, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: A petrological, microprobe and laser ablation ICPMS study

(2016) Andrew Glikson et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A new type of solar-system material recovered from Ordovician marine limestone

(2016) B. Schmitz et al.   Nature Communications

A protracted timeline for lunar bombardment from mineral chemistry, Ti thermometry and U–Pb geochronology of Apollo 14 melt breccia zircons

(2015) M. D. Hopkins et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Argon diffusion in Apollo 16 impact glass spherules: Implications for 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating of lunar impact events

(2015) David J. Gombosi et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages of lunar impact glasses: Relationships among Ar diffusivity, chemical composition, shape, and size

(2015) N.E.B. Zellner et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Preserved glass-rich impactites on Mars

(2015) Kevin M. Cannon et al.   GEOLOGY

Mineralogy, petrology, chronology, and exposure history of the Chelyabinsk meteorite and parent body

(2015) K. Righter et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Petrography and composition of Martian regolith breccia meteorite Northwest Africa 7475

(2015) Axel Wittmann et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon

(2015) Elizabeth A. Bell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A 4.2 billion year old impact basin on the Moon: U–Pb dating of zirconolite and apatite in lunar melt rock 67955

(2014) Marc D. Norman et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Hayabusa2: Scientific importance of samples returned from C-type near-Earth asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3

(2014) S. TACHIBANA et al.   GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Recently discovered 3.42-3.23 Ga impact layers, Barberton Belt, South Africa: 3.8 Ga detrital zircons, Archean impact history, and tectonic implications

(2014) D. R. Lowe et al.   GEOLOGY

Constraints on the recent rate of lunar ejecta breakdown and implications for crater ages

(2014) R. R. Ghent et al.   GEOLOGY

Preserved flora and organics in impact melt breccias

(2014) P.H. Schultz et al.   GEOLOGY

The Potassium-Argon Laser Experiment (KArLE):In SituGeochronology for Planetary Robotic Missions

(2014) Barbara A. Cohen et al.   GEOSTANDARDS AND GEOANALYTICAL RESEARCH

Defining the Flora Family: Orbital properties, reflectance properties and age

(2014) Melissa J. Dykhuis et al.   ICARUS

Morphology and formation ages of mid-sized post-Rheasilvia craters – Geology of quadrangle Tuccia, Vesta

(2014) T. Kneissl et al.   ICARUS

Ages of large lunar impact craters and implications for bombardment during the Moon’s middle age

(2013) Michelle R. Kirchoff et al.   ICARUS

Formation of melt droplets, melt fragments, and accretionary impact lapilli during a hypervelocity impact

(2013) B.C. Johnson et al.   ICARUS

The Vestan cataclysm: Impact-melt clasts in howardites and the bombardment history of 4 Vesta

(2013) Barbara A. Cohen   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

The bombardment history of the Moon as recorded by40Ar-39Ar chronology

(2013) V. A. Fernandes et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

The40Ar/39Ar dating technique applied to planetary sciences and terrestrial impacts

(2012) F. Jourdan   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Provenance and Pb isotopic ages of lunar volcanic and impact glasses from the Apollo 17 landing site

(2012) M. D. Norman et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

The onset of the lunar cataclysm as recorded in its ancient crater populations

(2012) Simone Marchi et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A sawtooth-like timeline for the first billion years of lunar bombardment

(2012) A. Morbidelli et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Distal Impact Ejecta Layers: Spherules and More

(2012) B. P. Glass et al.   Elements

Impact spherules as a record of an ancient heavy bombardment of Earth

(2012) B. C. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Space environment of an asteroid preserved on micrograins returned by the Hayabusa spacecraft

(2012) E. Nakamura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tissint Martian Meteorite: A Fresh Look at the Interior, Surface, and Atmosphere of Mars

(2012) H. C. Aoudjehane et al.   SCIENCE

Apollo 12 revisited

(2011) Randy L. Korotev et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Formation of spherules in impact produced vapor plumes

(2011) B.C. Johnson et al.   ICARUS

The Sculptured Hills of the Taurus Highlands: Implications for the relative age of Serenitatis, basin chronologies and the cratering history of the Moon

(2011) Paul D. Spudis et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Lunar impact basins: Stratigraphy, sequence and ages from superposed impact crater populations measured from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data

(2011) C. I. Fassett et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Simplicity in melt densification in multicomponent magmatic reservoirs in Earth's interior revealed by multinuclear magnetic resonance

(2011) S. K. Lee   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the origin of impact glass in the Apollo 16 regolith

(2010) Randy L. Korotev et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Apollo 17 regolith, 71501,262: A record of impact events and mare volcanism in lunar glasses

(2010) N. E. B. ZELLNER et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

40Ar-39Ar ages of H-chondrite impact melt breccias

(2010) Timothy D. SWINDLE et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar ages of lunar impact glasses for an increase in the impact rate ∼800Ma ago

(2009) N.E.B. Zellner et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Cratering saturation and equilibrium: A new model looks at an old problem

(2009) James E. Richardson   ICARUS