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Near-Earth Object Impacts News
July 15, 2023

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Humans' Ancestors Survived the Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs

A Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, the group that includes humans, dogs and bats, has been revealed by in-depth analysis of the fossil record, showing they co-existed with dinosaurs for a short time before the dinosaurs went ...

Where Did Earth's Water Come From? Not Melted Meteorites, According to Scientists

A new study brings scientists one step closer to answering the question of where Earth's water came ...

Gas Monitoring at Volcanic Fields Outside Naples, Italy, Exposes Multiple Sources of Carbon Dioxide Emissions

The Phlegraean volcanic fields just west of Naples, Italy, are among the top eight emitters of volcanic carbon dioxide in the world. Since 2005, the Solfatara crater -- one of many circular depressions in the landscape left by a long history of ...

Hubble Captures Movie of DART Asteroid Impact Debris

NASA在2022年开始了一个大胆的实验if they could change an asteroid's velocity by smacking it with a ballistic probe -- kind of like hitting it with a hammer. This experiment was to test a potential technique to someday deflect an asteroid on a collision course to Earth. Perhaps, for ...
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Comet Impacts Formed Continents When Solar System Entered Arms of Milky Way

New research has found evidence that Earth's early continents resulted from being hit by comets as our Solar System passed into and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, turning ...

One More Clue to the Moon's Origin

Researchers discover the first definitive proof that the Moon inherited indigenous noble gases from the Earth's mantle. The discovery represents a significant piece of the puzzle towards ...

What Part of a Space Rock Survives to the Ground?

When a small asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere from space, its surface is brutally heated, causing melting and fragmenting. Therefore, it was somewhat of a mystery why the rocks near the ...

What a Martian Meteorite Can Teach Us About Earth's Origins

What do Mars and Iceland have in common? These days, not so much. But more than 4.5 billion years ago, it's possible the Red Planet had a crust comparable to Iceland today. This discovery, ...

Yellowstone's History of Hydrothermal Explosions Over the Past 14,000 Years

While much of public attention on Yellowstone focuses on its potential to produce large supereruptions, the hazards that are much more likely to occur are smaller, violent hydrothermal explosions. ...

Early Earth: Tungsten Isotopes in Seawater Provide Insights Into the Co-Evolution of Earth's Mantle and Continents

Scientists have demonstrated that a new geochemical archive -- 182-Tungsten in banded iron formations -- can be used to simultaneously trace both the evolution of the Earth's mantle and ...

Sampling the Deep Graveyard of Earth's Earliest Crust

Scientists show that remnants of the roots of Earth's first crust are still present in the terrestrial mantle and contribute to magmas erupted at the surface over Earth's ...

Earth's Atmosphere May Be Source of Some Lunar Water

Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth's upper atmosphere and combining on the moon could be one of the sources of the known lunar water and ice, according to new ...

Ancient Helium Leaking from Core Offers Clues to Earth's Formation

Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth's core, a new study reports. Because almost all helium-3 is from the Big Bang, the gas leak adds evidence that Earth formed inside ...

Giant Impact Crater in Greenland Occurred a Few Million Years After Dinosaurs Went Extinct

Researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31-kilometer-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteorite impacted ...

Secondary Cratering on Earth: The Wyoming Impact Crater Field

Several dozen small impact craters, 10--70-m in size, have been discovered in southeastern Wyoming. A team of U.S. and German geoscientists found these ancient craters in exposed sedimentary layers ...

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Moons May Yield Clues to What Makes Planets Habitable

Because the moon is so important to life on Earth, scientists conjecture that a moon may be a potentially beneficial feature in harboring life on other planets. Most planets have moons, but ...

Did Comet's Fiery Destruction Lead to Downfall of Ancient Hopewell?

The rapid decline of the Hopewell culture about 1,500 years ago might be explained by falling debris from a near-Earth comet that created a devastating explosion over North America, laying waste to ...

Size Doesn’t Matter: Rock Composition Determines How Deadly a Meteorite Impact Is

A new study has found that the minerology of the rocks that a meteorite hits, rather than the size of the impact, determines how deadly an impact it will ...

Scientist Reveals Cause of Lost Magnetism at Meteorite Site

A scientist has discovered a method for detecting and better defining meteorite impact sites that have long lost their tell-tale craters. The discovery could further the study of not only ...

Vast Patches of Glassy Rock in Chilean Desert Likely Created by Ancient Exploding Comet

Heat from a comet exploding just above the ground fused the sandy soil into patches of glass stretching 75 kilometers, a new study ...

A New Earth Bombardment Model

A team has updated its asteroid bombardment model of the Earth with the latest geologic evidence of ancient, large collisions. These models have been used to understand how impacts may have affected ...

Earth’s ‘solid’ Inner Core May Contain Both Mushy and Hard Iron

New research suggests that Earth's 'solid' inner core is, in fact, endowed with a range of liquid, soft, and hard structures which vary across the top 150 miles of the inner ...

Earth Is Dimming Due to Climate Change

Researchers used decades of measurements of earthshine -- the light reflected from Earth that illuminates the surface of the Moon to find that there has been a significant drop in Earth's ...

Like a Molten Pancake

Why magma flowed along a curved pathway during the 2018 eruption of a Galapagos volcano is explained by a new ...

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