The conditions, timing, and setting for the origin of life on Earth and whether life exists
elsewhere in our solar system and beyond represent some of the most fundamental …

More than 50 years of space and planetary exploration and concomitant studies of terrestrial
impact structures have demonstrated that impact cratering has been a fundamental process …

Igneous rocks are the primary building blocks of planetary crusts. Most igneous rocks
originate via decompression melting and/or wet melting of protolith lithologies within …

The MEMIN research unit (Multidisciplinary Experimental and Modeling Impact research
Network) is focused on analyzing experimental impact craters and experimental cratering …

The Moon is an archive of impact cratering in the Solar System throughout the past 4.5
billion years. It preserves this record better than larger, more complex planets like the Earth …

Kamil crater (Egypt) is a natural laboratory for the study of processes and products
associated with the impacts of small iron projectiles on the Earth's crust. In particular …

We have investigated silicate emulsions in impact glasses and impact melt rocks from the
Wabar (Saudi Arabia), Kamil (Egypt), Barringer (USA), and Tenoumer (Mauritania) impact …

Dynamic failure of brittle materials is a fundamental physical problem that has significantly
impacts to many science and engineering disciplines. As the first and the most important …

The 45 m in diameter Kamil impact crater was formed< 5000 yr ago in the eastern Sahara,
close to the southern border of modern Egypt. The original features of this structure …

Kamil is a 45 m diameter impact crater identified in 2008 in southern Egypt. It was generated
by the hypervelocity impact of the Gebel Kamil iron meteorite on a sedimentary target …