Meteor/Meteorite News- 13NOV09

Astro clubs gear up to watch meteor showers

Times of India
PUNE: Various astronomy clubs have organised trips around Pune to watch the Leonid meteor shower, which is expected to happen on November 17 night. ...

Observing podcast: Leonid meteor shower, Silver Coin Galaxy, and IC 1613

Astronomy Magazine
November 13-20, 2009, the Leonid meteor shower makes a great event for all observers, while the Silver Coin Galaxy and irregular galaxy IC 1613 provide nice ...

FunnyCrave.com

NASA Debunks the movie 2012 – Science Suffers Humiliation

FunnyCrave.com
Idiots who pray Bruce Willis isn't too old to save us by the time that meteor hits. Idiots who wonder why Matthew Broderick could only snag Sarah Jessica ...

Examiner.com

Ready for the Leonid meteor showers? Nature's best light show is almost here

Examiner.com
It's time again for the spectacular Leonid meteor showers, and this year's annual fiery display in the heavens may just be a great one. ...


Meteors of November

Examiner.com
If there was ever such a thing as a teaching meteor shower, the Leonids would be it, because astronomers have learned more from this shower than from any ...

Kometen, Asteroiden und Meteoriten Raumsonde Rosetta kommt zur ...

Bayerischer Rundfunk. - Nurnberg,Germany
Europas Kometenjäger Rosetta ist wieder da - aber nur kurz: Heute rast die drei Tonnen schwere Raumsonde einmal um die Erde, um noch einmal richtig Schwung ...
Comet, asteroid and meteorite space probe Rosetta comes to...
Bavarian broadcasting company. - Nurnberg, Germany
Comet hunter of Europe Rosetta is there again - but only briefly: Today the three metric tons space probe races once around the earth, around properly swing once again...

Museum of Science and History reopens Friday, with many new interactive exhibits

Fort Worth Star Telegram
You may get lucky and witness an asteroid or a meteor shower live. These and many other jaw-dropping interactive experiences await when the Fort Worth ...

Meteor shower to brighten night sky if the clouds stay away

Santa Rosa Press Democrat
By BOB NORBERG The Leonids, an annual meteor shower that occurs as the Earth passes through the debris of Comet Tempel-Tuttle, is expected to put on a ...

毎日新聞

スポーツ＆トピックス：ラトビア、いん石落下は狂言

毎日新聞
ARIGA, Latvia (AP) － A Swedish mobile phone operator acknowledged on Oct. 27 that it was behind an elaborate meteorite hoax in Latvia and pledged to ...


Shooting-star show heading our way

Cincinnati.com
Bigger, heavier elements that survive their plunge into the atmosphere and hit the Earth are called meteorites. Most meteorites come from asteroids, ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- 12NOV09

Sighting In Kecksburg Remains A Mystery

KDKA
The military reportedly forced onlookers away and the event was described as a meteor flying across the sky. NASA repeatedly denied anything manmade landed ...

Catholic Church Searching for Aliens

WPEC
... to bridge the gap between religion and science. It's scientist-clerics have produced research on the topic and even have a world class meteorite collection.

The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com

Vatican Astronomer Guy Consolmagno: "We are not split into a world of Spocks ...

The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
An astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, Brother Guy serves as curator for the Vatican Meteorite collection in Rome. He spoke from his office. ...



Turn your eyes to the skies

GoErie.com
By LINDSEY POISSON Next week, the annual Leonid meteor shower will light up the constellation Leo with a few dozen "shooting stars" in the early morning ...

The Birmingham News - al.com

Meteor storm muse behind 'Stars Fell on Alabama'

The Birmingham News - al.com
Astronomers estimate that a meteor storm on Nov. 12-13, 1833, bombarded Earth's atmosphere with more than 30000 meteors an hour blazing over Alabama and ...

California Meteor/Meteorite News- San Francisco Sunset Fireball 7NOV09 12NOV09

SUNSET FIREBALL
Spaceweather News-
If only photographers had faster reflexes.... On Saturday, Nov. 7th, around 5 p.m. Pacific time, a brilliant fireball raced across the sky of California's San Francisco ...

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=11&year=2009

Kazakhstan Meteor/Meteorite News- Kazakhstan Meteor over Atomic Power Station 11NOV09

В небе над томской АЭС сгорел метеорит

Vesti.kz - Almaty,Kazakhstan
В небе над Томском недалеко от действующей атомной электростанции сгорел каменный метеорит, сообщает Life News. След падения небесного тела на камеру... [more]

Russian-English machine translation:
In the sky above the Tomsk atomic power station the meteorite has burned down
Vesti.kz - Almaty,Kazakhstan
The trace of falling of a heavenly body on the chamber of a cellular telephone was fixed in the evening on the last Tuesday, on November, 10th, by the 20-years native of village Tahtamyshevo. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- 11NOV09

The Associated Press

Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life

The Associated Press
Its scientist-clerics have generated top-notch research and its meteorite collection is considered one of the world's best. The observatory, founded by Pope ...


The lights in the night sky reappear

9NEWS.com
They didn't belong to a meteorite, a UFO, or anything else - it was only members of the Mile-Hi Skydiving Center. Monday evening, thousands of people saw ...

The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

RedOrbit
This year's Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov. 17th. If forecasters are correct, the shower should produce a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors ...

Meteor impacts may have cooked up life on Earth

Newspost Online
A new research by scientists has confirmed that the organic matter needed for the origin of life could have been delivered to Earth through meteoritic ...

Thinking dark thoughts

Albany Times Union
Next Tuesday, the Leonid meteor shower will be putting on a show. According to this article, the peak performance is expected to be between 3:30 and 5:30 am ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- Asteroid 2009 VA Whizzes By The Earth 6NOV09 10NOV09

Small Asteroid 2009 VA Whizzes By The Earth
Don Yeomans, Paul Chodas, Steve Chesley
NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
November 9, 2009


Trajectory of Asteroid 2009 VA Past Earth on November 6, 2009

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2009 VA, which is only about 7
meters in size, passed about 2 Earth radii (14,000 km) from the Earth's
surface Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST. This is the third-closest known
(non-impacting) Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid. ...
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news166.html

Meteor/Meteorite News- Father of Chinese Space Program Dies 31OCT09 10NOV09

Father of the Chinese
space program dies
BY CRAIG COVAULT
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: November 2, 2009

The father of China's space and strategic rocket program Tsien Hsue-shen, who worked initially on U.S. rocket development, helped bring Werner Von Braun to the U.S. then was wrongly deported back to China in the 1950s for alleged ties with communist China, died in Beijing Oct. 31 at age 98. (He has also gone by the name of Qian Xuesen.) ... [more]

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/02china/

9NOV2009

Марсоход перепутал метеорит с обычным камнем

Lenta.ru - Москва,Russia
Марсоход Opportunity обнаружил камень, который ученые издалека приняли за метеорит и успели дать ему имя Marquette Island ("Остров Маркет"). ...
The mars rover has mixed a meteorite with a usual stone
Lenta.ru - Moscow, Russia
Mars rover Opportunity has found out a stone which scientists have from apart accepted for a meteorite and had time to name it Marquette Island (" Island the Market ")....

Meteorite found due to skycam

Discover Magazine
It's been observing the sky since 2006, and it paid off handsomely: a bright meteor observed by the skycam has led to the resulting meteorite being found. ...

Meteorite-Times November issue is now up
http://www.meteorite-times.com/

Meteor/Meteorite News- 10NOV09

KXJZ News

Meteor Shower to Light up the Skies

KXJZ News
The annual Leonid meteor shower will peak next week, but the meteors could start as soon as Tuesday night. So what should you look for? ...

The Money Times

World will not end in 2012: NASA

The Money Times
Some reports claim that some meteor would hit Earth. Others state that the world will come to an end due to reversal in its rotation or as a result of the ...


Ist das ein Meteorit ?

Oberbayerisches Volksblatt (Abonnement) - Bayern,Germany
Unterreit - Wie erkennt man einen Meteoriten? Als Feuerkugel wird ein besonders heller Meteor mit einer Leuchtdauer von rund fünf Sekunden bezeichnet, ...
Is that a meteorite?
Oberbayerisches Volksblatt (subscription) - Bavaria, Germany
Unterreit - How one recognizes a meteorite? An especially bright meteor with a luminous duration of about five seconds is called fire ball...

Earth Heads into Meteor Territory

News10.net
It's not an invasion of UFO's, but rather the annual Perseid meteor shower. Astronomers say the Perseid is one of the best meteor showers as it produces up ...

Geelong Advertiser

Mystery holes in Grovedale roof could be meteorites, says expert

Geelong Advertiser
The Astronomical Society of Victoria's president Perry Vlahos predicted a marble-sized piece of space junk or meteorite could have caused the damage and the ...


Here comes the 2009 Leonid meteor shower

Astronomy Magazine
The Leonid meteor shower peaks November 17, when you might see up to 100 meteors per hour under a dark sky. Astronomy: Roen Kelly [View Larger Image] ...

Camera Network Tracks Anomalous Meteorite

Space Fellowship
An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs ...

Adirondacks: Stargazing Parties, Holiday Events

ABC News
The Adirondack Loj in Lake Placid is planning a Meteor Mania event starting at 10 pm Nov. 17, when experts are forecasting a meteor shower will take place. ...

Camera Network Spies Anomalous Meteorite
Universe Today Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:18 AM PST
A network of time-lapse cameras set up in the Nullarbor Plain desert of Western Australia has allowed researchers to track a fallen meteorite to the ground, and enabled them to determine its original orbit and parent body. The meteorite has a composition different than that of other meteors, leading researchers to believe that it originates [...]

Weekend Fireball Still a Mystery

NBC Bay Area
Should a piece of the meteor survive the fiery path through the atmosphere and reach the ground it becomes known as a meteorite. The colors seen in meteor ...

Jimmy Westlake: A great year for Leonid meteors Steamboat Pilot It is the debris shed by Comet Tempel-Tuttle that creates our annual Leonid meteor shower when the Earth encounters the comet's orbit each November. ...

Meteor sightings on the rise - 'tis the season Ukiah Daily Journal Meteor sightings reported by Willits residents on Saturday night may be the first of many later in the month for people in Mendocino County and points all ...

CU professor explains strange lights in the sky over Denver

9NEWS.com
"I thought it was a meteorite. You could see a tail behind it, and as it got closer you could really see the tail. It was on fire. ...

Troubled asteroid mission stumbles on road home
SPACEFLIGHT NOW-Hopes are fading for the return of the Hayabusa space probe after
another of its ion thrusters failed last week, leaving just one
already-damaged engine to guide the hard-luck spacecraft back to Earth,
potentially with the first precious samples of an asteroid. ...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/09hayabusa/

British Columbia/ Yolo Cnty, Calf. Meteors 7NOV2009

Марсоход перепутал метеорит с обычным камнем

Lenta.ru - Москва,Russia
Марсоход Opportunity обнаружил камень, который ученые издалека приняли за метеорит и успели дать ему имя Marquette Island ("Остров Маркет"). ...
The mars rover has mixed a meteorite with a usual stone
Lenta.ru - Moscow, Russia
Mars rover Opportunity has found out a stone which scientists have from apart accepted for a meteorite and had time to name it Marquette Island (" Island the Market ")....

Meteorite found due to skycam

Discover Magazine
It's been observing the sky since 2006, and it paid off handsomely: a bright meteor observed by the skycam has led to the resulting meteorite being found. ...

Meteorite-Times November issue is now up
http://www.meteorite-times.com/

Possible meteor spotted in BC sky

CBC.ca
People throughout British Columbia were treated to a spectacular light show Saturday after what's believed to be a meteor lit up the sky. ...

Meteorite Sighting Startles Yolo County Residents
CBS 13 Sacramento Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:16 PM PST
Authorities scrambled to find a downed aircraft after numerous witnesses called to report seeing a fireball plunge out of the sky, but the sightings may have been the result of something a bit more astronomical.

The UFO / fireball in the sky Saturday night was part of a meteor shower (video)

Examiner.com
The YouTube vdeo below that shows some of the contrails vapor left behind by the meteorite. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that the meteor shower prompted ...

Firey meteor may have caused reports of plane crash north of Woodland

Daily Democrat
However, a search by law enforcement personnel and media turned up nothing, leaving observers to speculate the reports were those of a meteor blazing across ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- The World's Largest Meteorites 9NOV09

The World's Largest Meteorites
by Norbert Classen
The largest meteorites found are usually irons. This is due to the fact that iron meteorites are more stable compared to stony or stony-iron meteorites. The latter two types of meteorites often break up into many pieces upon entering the atmosphere, creating the most impressive phenomenon known as a meteorite shower.... (more with photos)

http://imca.cc/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=59

Another website of :

Largest Meteorites in the World

by Mike Jensen

http://www.jensenmeteorites.com/largestmeteorites.htm

and yet another:

7 Most Massive Single Meteorites on Earth

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-massive-single-meteorites-earth/17225

Meteor/Meteorite News- Martian Landscapes 9NOV09

Martian landscapes

Boston Globe- boston.com 6NOV09

Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing ... (more text and 35 excellent images of Martian landscape !!!)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/martian_landscapes.html

Meteor/Meteorite News- Kaidun--A Meteorite with Everything but the Kitchen Sink 9NOV09

Kaidun--A Meteorite with Everything but the Kitchen Sink
--- This unique breccia is called a single-stone meteorite collection.

Written by Linda M. V. Martel
Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology

An unprecedented variety of chondritic and achondritic meteorite fragments make up the Kaidun meteorite. In a well-illustrated 2003 paper Michael Zolensky (NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas) and Andrei Ivanov (Vernadsky Institute, Moscow, Russia) summarize two decades of work on the complex, fragmental breccia, reviewing the types and origins of clasts present in Kaidun and theories for the origin of its parent body. ...

Whole Article with photos:

http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Oct09/Kaidun_meteorite.html

Meteor/Meteorite News- North America comet theory questioned was “Dryas all wet” 9NOV09

North America comet theory questioned was “Dryas all wet”

“ http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091012/full/news.2009.997.html

"North America comet theory questioned”


The full reference to the article at the above URL is:

North America comet theory questioned. No evidence of an extraterrestrial
impact 13,000 years ago, studies say by Rex Dalton, Nature News, Published
online October 12, 2009, doi:10.1038/news.2009.997

The paper is:

Surovell, T. A., V. T. Holliday, J. A. M. Gingerich, C. Ketron, C. Vance
Haynes, Jr., I. Hilman, D. P. Wagner, E. Johnson, and P. Claeyse. 2009,
An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact
hypothesis. Published online before print October 12, 2009,
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0907857106,

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/09/0907857106

This reminds me of the claims made by a group of researchers, which
included Luann Becker, for indicators of an extraterrestrial impact
at the Permian - Triassic and the Bedout High structure being the
impact crater. Papers were published arguing that evidence of
extraterrestrial impact, including fullerenes containing extraterrestrial
3He, are found at the Permian - Triassic boundary. Later researchers,
who restudied various Permian - Triassic boundary outcrops, including
the ones studied by Becker, and were unable to replicate their findings.
The evidence used to argue for Bedout High being an impact structure
either could not be replicate or turned out to be open to alternative
interpretations. Finally, there is a considerable amount of controversy
whether many of the fullerenes found in sediments are even of
extraterrestrial origin.

Best Regards,

Paul

Meteor/Meteorite News- Dryas all wet 9NOV09

Dryas all wet

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091012/full/news.2009.997.html

North America comet theory questioned

No evidence of an extraterrestrial impact 13,000 years ago, studies say.
by Rex Dalton

An independent study has cast more doubt on a controversial theory that a comet
exploded over icy North America nearly 13,000 years ago, wiping out the Clovis
people and many of the continent's large animals. ...

References
1. Surovell, T. A. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA advance online
publication doi:10.1073/pnas.0907857106 (2009).
2. Firestone, R. B. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 104, 16016-16021
(2007).
3. Marlon, J. R. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 2519-2524
(2009).
4. Kennett, D. J. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 12623-12628
(2009).

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/10/irreproducible-results-raise-doubts-about-ice-age-impact.ars

Asteroid impact-driven climate change called into question

In recent years, a team of researchers has been gathering evidence of an
extraterrestrial impact that occurred precisely as the Earth plunged into a cold
snap. Now, other researchers have tried to reproduce a key piece of that
evidence, and apparently failed.

By John Timmer | Last updated October 12, 2009 3:11 PM CT

The end of the last ice age was a busy time in North America. As a whole, the
world seemed to be in the process of exiting the long cold snap nearly 15,000
years ago, but there was a sudden return to icy conditions that lasted nearly
2,000 years. At about the same time, the first humans made their presence felt
in North America, and many of the larger species of fauna went extinct. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- New Paper on Identifying Impact Structures in "Earth-Science Reviews" 9NOV09

New Paper on Identifying Impact Structures in "Earth-Science Reviews"

A new paper has been published online. It critically
reviews the reliability of different criteria used
to identify extraterrestrial impact structures.

Frencha, B. M., and Koeberl, C., in press, The
convincing identification of terrestrial meteorite
impact structures: What works, what doesn't, and why.
Earth-Science Reviews, Article in Press
doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.009

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.009

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteor/Meteorite News- Recent Papers Related to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis 9NOV09

Recent Papers Related to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

Two recent papers related to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis are:

Woodman, N., and N. B. Athfiel, 2009, Post-Clovis survival of
American Mastodon in the southern Great Lakes Region of North
America. Quaternary Research. vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 359-363.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2009.06.009

One statement in the paper is:

"Previous study of relative numbers of preserved spores of
the dung fungus Sporormiella, used as a proxy for megafaunal
biomass, suggests that populations of large mammals were in
steep decline in northeastern North America before the onset
of the YDC."

Another paper in the same issue is:

Newby, P., J. Bradley, A. Spiess, B. Shuman, and P. Leduc,
2009, A Paleoindian response to Younger Dryas climate change.
Quaternary Science Reviews. vol. 24, no. 1-2, pp. 141-154.
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.04.010

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.04.010

Your,

Paul H.

Meteor/Meteorite News- More References About Geology of “World's Biggest Impact Crater” (??) Region 9NOV09

More References About Geology of “World's Biggest Impact Crater” (??) Region

In addition to papers list at:
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057487.html

and
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057488.html

there many more references about the geology of the Bombay High
region of the western Indian continental shelf where the so-called
“World's Biggest Impact Crater” / "Shiva impact crater" lies to
be found.

They include:

Biswas S K 1982 Rift basins in the western margin of India
and their hydrocarbon prospects; American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 1497-1513.

Biswas S K 1987 Regional tectonic framework, structure and
evolution of the western margin basins of India.Tectonophysics,
vol. 135, issue 4, pp. 307-327

Biswas, S. K., M. K. Rangaraju, J. Thomas, and S. K. Bhattacharya,
1994, Cambay- Hazad(!) Petroleum System in the South Cambay Basin,
India: Chapter 37: Part VI. Case Studies--Eastern Hemisphere.
In L. B. Magoon and W. G. Dow, eds., pp. 615-624. Memoir 60,
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Duncan, R.A., 1990, The volcanic record of the Reunion
Hotspot, Proceedings of the ODP, Sciences Results. vol 115,
pp. 3–9.

http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/115_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/sr115_01.pdf

The above publications shows paleogeographic reconstructions.

Sharma, K. K., 2007, "Cretaceous-Tertiary Tectono-Magmatism
in the NW Indian shield: A fragmenting continent."

http://www.mantleplumes.org/NWIndia.html

http://www.mantleplumes.org/WebpagePDFs/NWIndia.pdf

Todal, A., and O. Edholm, 1998, ontinental margin off Western
India and Deccan Large Igneous Province. Marine Geophysical
Researches. vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 273-291

http://www.springerlink.com/content/g7l126p314673055/

There are a huge number of references listed at the above URL.

The unborken URL to:

Chatterjee, S., N. Guven, A. Yoshinobu, and P. Donofrio,
2006, Shiva Structure: a possible KT boundary impact
crater on the western shelf of India.Special Publications,
Museum Texas Tech University. no. 50. is:

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gesc/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu/Published_pdfs/Chatterjee%20et%20al.%202006.pdf

The link to it can be found on Dr. 's publications page at:

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gesc/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu/Yosh_publications.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteor/Meteorite News- Scientists Try to Calm '2012' hysteria 9NOV09

Scientists Try to Calm '2012' hysteria

Scientists Try to Calm '2012' hysteria

2012: Combat the Nonsense, Universe Today, Oct 14, 2009
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/10/14/2012-combat-the-nonsense/

http://www.universetoday.com/category/2012/

2012: Eh, It's Not the End Of the World: Film & Internet
Rumors Fuel Doomsday Babble, Washington Post, Oct. 16, 2009

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503745.html

Nasa: The end of the world is lie, Mirror.co.uk, Oct 16, 2009?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/10/17/nasa-the-end-of-the-world-is-lie-115875-21753230/

Scientists try to calm '2012' hysteria by John Johnson
Los Angeles Times, Oct 16, 2009?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-movie17-2009oct17,0,4123180.story

2012 Apocalypse, Astrobiology Magazine, Oct. 18, 2009
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/3283/2012-apocalypse

Aveni, Anthony, 2009, Apocalypse Soon? Archaeology Magazine.
vol. 62 no. 6 (November/December 2009), pp. 31-35.

http://www.archaeology.org/0911/2012/

http://www.archaeology.org/0911/

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteor/Meteorite News- PDF Files of Papers About K-T and Alledged Younger Dryas Impacts 9NOV09

PDF Files of Papers About K-T and Alledged Younger Dryas Impacts

I. Bass River Drilling Project - Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary
http://geology.rutgers.edu/brimages.shtml

Ejecta layer at the K/T Boundary, Bass River, New Jersey by R. K. Olsson
and K. G. Miller
http://www.oceanleadership.org/files/USSSP/PDFs/Greatest_Hits/Events/Olsson.pdf

II. Chicxulub crater deep drilling project web page at:
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Chicxulub/Chixproject.html

and http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Web-Chix/ICDP-Chix/chixintro.html

III. PDF Files of Philippe Claeys's Papers

There are a number of links to PDF files of papers concerning the
Chicxulub Crater and the Cretaceous - Tertiary (KT) Boundary
Mass Extinction Event by Philippe Claeys towards on his web
page at:

http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Claeys.htm

They include:

Schulte, P., Speijer, R.P., Brinkhuis H., Kontny, A.,
Claeys, Ph., Galeotti, S., and Smit, J., 2008, Comment
on the paper: "Chicxulub impact predates K-T boundary:
New evidence from Brazos, Texas" by Keller et al.
(2007). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. vol. 269,
pp. 614-620.
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Schulte-2008.pdf

Tagle R., Erzinger, J., Hecht, L., Schmitt, R. T.,
Stoeffler, D., and Claeys, Ph., 2004, Platinum group
elements in impactites of the ICDP Chicxulub drill core
Yaxcopoil-1. Are there traces of the projectile ?
Meteoritics and Planetary Science. vol. 39, pp. 1009-1016,
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Tagle-etal-04.pdf

Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J., Morgan, J., Stoeffler, D., and Claeys,
Ph.,2004, The Chicxulub Scientific Drilling Project (CSDP).
Meteoritics and Planetary Science, vol. 39, pp. 787-790.
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Urrutia-etal-04.pdf

Claeys, Ph., Heuschkel, S., Lounejeva-Baturina, E., Sanchez-
Rubio, G., Stoeffler, D., The suevite of drill hole Yucatan 6
in the Chicxulub impact crater. Meteoritics and Planetary
Science. vol. 38, pp. 1299-1317.
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Claeys-etal-03.pdf

Claeys, Ph., Kiessling, W. and Alvarez, W., 2002, Distribution
of Chicxulub ejecta at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary.
Geological Society of America Special Paper no. 356, pp. 55-69.
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Claeys-etal-02.pdf

Kiessling, W. and Claeys, Ph., 2001, geographic database
approach to the K/T boundary. In Geological and Biological
Effects of Impact Events. Eds. E. Buffetaut, and Koeberl C.,
Impact Studies, Springer Verlag Berlin p.83-140.
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Kiessling%26Claeys-01.pdf

Jones, A.P., Claeys, Ph., and Heuschkel, S. Impact melting:
a review of experimental constraints for carbonate targets
and applications to the Chicxulub crater. In Impact and
Early Earth. Eds. I. Gilmour and C. Koeberl, Lecture Notes
in Earth Sciences, v. 91, p. 343-362, Springer Verlag Berlin.
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Jones-etal-01.pdf

Grajales-Nishimura, J. M., Cedillo-Pardo, E., Rosales-Domínguez,
C., Morán-Zenteno, J. D., Alvarez, W., Claeys, Ph., Ruíz-Morales,
J., García-Hernández, J., Padilla-Avila, P., and Sánchez-Ríos,
A., 1999, The Chicxulub impact: source for reservoirs and seals in
southeastern Mexico oil fields. Geology. vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 307-310.
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Grajales-etal-00.pdf

Pope, K.O., Ocampo, A.C., Fisher, A. G., Alvarez W., Fouke,
B.W., Webster, C.L. Jr., Vega, F., Smit, J., Frische A. E.,
and Claeys, Ph., 1999, Proximal Chicxulub impact ejecta from
Albion Island, Belize. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
vol. 170, pp. 351-364.
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Pope-etal-99.pdf

Smit J., Roep, T.B., Alvarez W., Montanari, A., Claeys Ph.,
Grajales-Nishimura, J.M., and Bermudez, J., 1996, Coarse-grained,
clastic sandstone complex at the KT boundary around the Gulf
of Mexico: Deposition by tsunami waves induced by the Chicxulub
impact? Geological Society of America Special Paper, vol. 307, pp. 151-182.
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Smit-etal-96.pdf

Warren, P. H., Claeys Ph. and Cedillo-Pardo E., 1996, Mega-
impact melt petrology (Chicxulub, Sudbury, and the Moon):
Effects of scale and other factors on potential for fractional
crystallization and development of cumulates. Geological
Society of America Special Paper. vol. 307, pp. 105-124.
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Warren-etal-96.pdf

IV PDF files of some of his popular works can
be found in "Outreach to the media and public" at
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Press/Press.htm

They include comments by him about the hypothesized
terminal Pleistocene "Clovis Comet" impact. including:

Le monde, 21 June 2008, interview in article: "La
thÅse de la mÄtÄorite tueuse de Mammouths sucite
de vifs dÄbats" [click here for article].
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Press/Press.htm

http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Press/Pdf%20files/Sciencevie-march-09.pdf

Le monde, 05 January 2009, interview in article:
"Une crise Äcologique tombÄe du ciel il y a 12900 ans?"
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Press/Press.htm

http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Press/Pdf%20files/Lemonde-4jan09.pdf

De Standaard, De Morgen, Het Laatste Nieuws, the
3 major Flemish newspapers, 20 October 2009, articles:
"Mammoet stierf niet uit door buitenaardse inslag"
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Press/Press.htm

http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Press/Pdf%20files/DeStandaard201009.pdf

Le monde, 21 June 2008, interview in article: "La
thÅse de la mÄtÄorite tueuse de Mammouths sucite
de vifs dÄbats"
http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Press/Press.htm

http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Press/Pdf%20files/Lemonde.pdf

Paul H.