In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), together with the European Space Agency …

The physical properties of the stone meteorites provide important clues to understanding the
formation and physical evolution of material in the Solar protoplanetary disk as well …

The asteroid impact near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on 15 February 2013 was the
largest airburst on Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event, causing a natural disaster in an …

Earth is continuously colliding with fragments of asteroids and comets of various sizes. The
largest encounter in historical times occurred over the Tunguska river in Siberia in 1908 …

C-type asteroids are among the most pristine objects in the Solar System, but little is known
about their interior structure and surface properties. Telescopic thermal infrared …

Abstract In 2018, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2, arrived at the small asteroid Ryugu.
The surface of this C-type asteroid is covered with numerous boulders whose size and …

We explore the hypothesis that, due to small van der Waals forces between constituent
grains, small rubble pile asteroids have a small but nonzero cohesive strength. The nature of …

Doppler weather radar imaging enabled the rapid recovery of the Sutter's Mill meteorite after
a rare 4-kiloton of TNT–equivalent asteroid impact over the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in …

The discovery of 248 dated impact sites known to have formed within the last few decades
allows us to refine the current cratering rate and slope of the production function at Mars. We …

Micrometeorites, a possible major source of Earth's water, are thought to form from explosive
dispersal of hydrated chondritic materials during impact events on their parental asteroids …