6 Million Years Ago Something Slammed Into Modern-Day Brazil Researchers in Brazil have discovered another tektite field. Tektites are gravel-sized chunks of natural glass formed by impacts and spread over a wide area. Their presence indicates that a powerful impact occurred 6 million years ago.

6 Million Years Ago Something Slammed Into Modern-Day Brazil #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #ImpactEvent #AncientHistory #GeologicalDiscovery

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Hydrothermal System Helped Life Recover After Dino-Killing Asteroid - Astrobiology About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species

Hydrothermal System Helped Life Recover After Dino-Killing Asteroid
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EAI Seminar: Deep Microbial Colonization During Impact-generated Hydrothermal Circulation Of Impact Structures (Video) - Astrobiology Deep Microbial Colonization

EAI Seminar: Deep microbial Colonization During Impact-generated Hydrothermal Circulation Of Impact Structures (Video)
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Earth’s Largest Modern Crater Discovered In Southern China - Astrobiology A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth.

Earth’s Largest Modern Crater Discovered In Southern China
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Strange Glass in Australia Reveals a Massive Impact We Never Knew About But where’s the crater?

Strange Glass in Australia Reveals a Massive Impact We Never Knew About #Science #EarthSciences #Geology #ImpactEvent #Australia

That was too close... Five asteroid impacts that never were By Andy CookeFive Asteroid Impact Disasters that never were...You’ve all seen the diagrams – the Solar System, and Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the like. ... and the...

Andy Cooke looks at five times we came too close to a deadly #asteroid #impactevent, including some dramatised in SLP works of #AlternateHistory #fiction. #NaturalDisaster #AsteroidImpact #ExtinctionEvent www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/that-wa...

The Depletion Of The Asteroid Belt And The Impact History Of The Earth - Astrobiology We have evaluated the rate at which the asteroid belt is losing material, and how it splits between macroscopic bodies and meteoritic dust.

The Depletion Of The Asteroid Belt And The Impact History Of The Earth
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Multiple Giant Impacts and Chemical Equilibria: An Integrated Approach to Rocky Planet Formation - Astrobiology During the formation of rocky planets, the surface environments of growing protoplanets were dramatically different from those of present-day planets.

Multiple Giant Impacts and Chemical Equilibria: An Integrated Approach to Rocky Planet Formation
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Shocked Quartz At The Younger Dryas Onset Supports Cosmic Airbursts/Impacts - Astrobiology Shocked quartz grains are an accepted indicator of crater-forming cosmic impact events

Shocked Quartz At The Younger Dryas Onset Supports Cosmic Airbursts/Impacts
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Discovery Links Microbial Colonization To An Ancient Meteorite Crater - Astrobiology precisely dated the emergence of microbial life within a meteorite impact crater—revealing that life not only survives catastrophe, but thrives in its aftermath.

Discovery Links Microbial Colonization To An Ancient Meteorite Crater
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Geology And Mars Analog Potential Of The < 2.7-billion-year-old Miralga Impact Structure, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Australia - Astrobiology North Pole Dome (Pilbara Craton, Western Australia) contains unique geological analogs to early Earth and Mars.

Geology And Mars Analog Potential Of The < 2.7-billion-year-old Miralga Impact Structure, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Australia
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The Response of Planetary Atmospheres To The Impact Of Icy Comets II: Exo-Earth Analogues - Astrobiology The orbital regime of a terrestrial planet plays a significant role in shaping its atmospheric dynamics, climate, and hence potential habitability.

The Response of Planetary Atmospheres to the Impact of Icy Comets II: exo-Earth Analogues
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Link Established Between A Grand Canyon Landslide And The Meteor Crater Impact Event - Astrobiology the Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater.

Link Established Between A Grand Canyon Landslide And The Meteor Crater Impact Event
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Modeling Atmospheric Alteration on Titan: Hydrodynamics and Shock-Induced Chemistry of Meteoroid Entry - Astrobiology Meteoroid entry into planetary atmospheres generates bow shocks, resulting in high-temperature gas conditions that drive chemical reactions.

Modeling Atmospheric Alteration on Titan: Hydrodynamics and Shock-Induced Chemistry of Meteoroid Entry
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New Fossils From Earth’s Most Famous Extinction Show Climate Tipping Point Was Crossed - Astrobiology The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

New Fossils From Earth’s Most Famous Extinction Show Climate Tipping Point Was Crossed
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The Influence Of Interior Structure And Thermal State On Impact Melt Generation Upon Large Impacts Onto Terrestrial Planets - Astrobiology We investigate the melt production of planetary impacts as a function of planet size (R/REarth=0.1-1.5), impactor size (L=1-1000 km)

The Influence Of Interior Structure And Thermal State On Impact Melt Generation Upon Large Impacts Onto Terrestrial Planets
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How Does Life Rebound From Mass Extinctions? - Astrobiology If you’re an animal living through a mass extinction, it’s best to be one that’s found a unique way to make a living.

How Does Life Rebound From Mass Extinctions?
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Using Rock Blasted From Craters To Probe The Martian Subsurface - Astrobiology A team of planetary scientists has developed a promising new way to peer beneath the dusty surface of Mars and other planetary bodies.

Using Rock Blasted From Craters To Probe The Martian Subsurface
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Atmospheric Loss During Giant Impacts: Mechanisms And Scaling Of Near- And Far-field Loss - Astrobiology The primary epoch of planetary accretion concludes with giant impacts – highly energetic collisions between proto-planets that can play a key role in shaping a planet’s inventory of volatile elements....

Atmospheric Loss During Giant Impacts: Mechanisms And Scaling Of Near- And Far-field Loss
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Actividad hidrotermal generada por impacto en el borde del cráter Ritchey, Marte
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Hydrothermal Activity Generated By Impact Melt Emplacement On The Rim Of Ritchey Crater, Mars - Astrobiology Impact-induced hydrothermal systems have the potential to sustain long-lived aqueous environments throughout the history of Mars

Hydrothermal Activity Generated By Impact Melt Emplacement On The Rim Of Ritchey Crater, Mars
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The Atmospheric Entry of Cometary Impactors - Astrobiology Cometary impacts play an important role in the early evolution of Earth, and other terrestrial exoplanets.

The Atmospheric Entry of Cometary Impactors
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Chicxulub Asteroid Impact Sulfur Release Was Less Lethal In Dinosaur Extinction - Astrobiology Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula

Chicxulub Asteroid Impact Sulfur Release Was Less Lethal In Dinosaur Extinction
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The Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected In The Main Belt - Astrobiology The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That’s about as wide as Brooklyn.

The Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected In The Main Belt
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Massive Asteroid Impacts Did Not Change Earth’s Climate In The Long Term - Astrobiology Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago.

Massive Asteroid Impacts Did Not Change Earth’s Climate In The Long Term
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Effect Of A Giant Meteorite Impact On Paleoarchean Surface Environments And Life - Astrobiology Large meteorite impacts must have strongly affected the habitability of the early Earth.

Effect Of A Giant Meteorite Impact On Paleoarchean Surface Environments And Life
astrobiology.com/2024/10/effe... #astrobiology #Meteorite #impactevent #climate

Australian Crater Could Offer Fresh Insight Into Earth’s Geological History - Astrobiology VCU’s Arif Sikder of the Center for Environmental Studies is part of the research team that is going back in time – by hundreds of millions of years.

Australian Crater Could Offer Fresh Insight Into Earth’s Geological History
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Earth May Have Had A Ring System 466 Million Years Ago - Astrobiology Earth may have had a ring system, which formed around 466 million years ago

Earth May Have Had A Ring System 466 Million Years Ago
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