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10Be in Australasian microtektites compared to tektites: Size and geographic controls

scholarly article

10Be in Australasian microtektites compared to tektites: Size and geographic controls: REPLY

scientific article published in April 2019

3D X-ray tomographic analysis reveals how coesite is preserved in Muong Nong-type tektites

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

A common volatilization trend in Transantarctic Mountain and Australasian microtektites: Implications for their formation model and parent crater location

scientific article published in April 2010

A microchondrule‐bearing micrometeorite and comparison with microchondrules in CM chondrites

scholarly article

A new type of oxidized and pre-irradiated micrometeorite

scientific article published in July 2018

A unique CO-like micrometeorite hosting an exotic Al-Cu-Fe-bearing assemblage - close affinities with the Khatyrka meteorite

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Asteroids accretion, differentiation, and break-up in the Vesta source region: Evidence from cosmochemistry of mesosiderites

scientific article published in July 2022

Australasian microtektites from Antarctica: XAS determination of the Fe oxidation state

scholarly article

Australasian microtektites: Impactor identification using Cr, Co and Ni ratios

scientific article published in February 2018

Characteristics of the Sahara as a meteorite recovery surface

scientific article published in December 2019

Chemical Analysis of Iron Meteorites Using a Hand‐Held X‐Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer

scientific article published on 13 June 2014

Chemical Analysis of Iron Meteorites by Inductively Coupled Plasma‐Mass Spectrometry

scientific article published in November 2003

Chondritic micrometeorites from the Transantarctic Mountains

scholarly article

Coesite in a Muong Nong‐type tektite from Muong Phin, Laos: Description, formation, and survival

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Constraining the terrestrial age of micrometeorites using their record of the Earth's magnetic field polarity

scientific article

Correction to: Optical tweezers in a dusty universe

scientific article published in November 2021

Cosmic Dust: Finding a Needle in a Haystack

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

Cosmic ray exposure and pre-atmospheric size of the Gebel Kamil iron meteorite

Definition and use of functional analogues in planetary exploration

scientific article published in March 2021

Direct quartz-coesite transformation in shocked porous sandstone from Kamil Crater (Egypt)

scholarly article

Dust in the Upper Stratosphere Tracking Experiment and Retrieval: Exploring the Dust Reservoir of the Upper Stratosphere through Balloons 

scientific article published on 28 March 2022

Evidence for subsolidus quartz-coesite transformation in impact ejecta from the Australasian tektite strewn field

scientific article published in November 2019

Extensive impact melting on the H-chondrite parent asteroid during the cataclysmic bombardment of the early solar system: Evidence from the achondritic meteorite Dar al Gani 896

scholarly article

Fission track age of Transantarctic Mountain microtektites

scientific article published in May 2011

Flying too close to the Sun – The viability of perihelion-induced aqueous alteration on periodic comets

scientific article published in November 2020

Fossil micrometeorites from Monte dei Corvi: Searching for dust from the Veritas asteroid family and the utility of micrometeorites as a palaeoclimate proxy

scientific article published in August 2023

Gebel Kamil: The iron meteorite that formed the Kamil crater (Egypt)

scientific article published in August 2011

Geological and geophysical investigation of Kamil crater, Egypt

scholarly article

HED-like cosmic spherules from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Major and trace element abundances and oxygen isotopic compositions

scientific article published in January 2012

High crustal diversity preserved in the lunar meteorite Mount DeWitt 12007 (Victoria Land, Antarctica)

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

Hydrothermal activity on the CV parent body: New perspectives from the giant Transantarctic Mountains minimeteorite TAM 5.29

scientific article published on 19 December 2019

Identification of the parent bodies of micrometeorites with high-precision oxygen isotope ratios

scientific article

Impact Craters and Meteorites: The Egyptian Record

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Intense aqueous alteration on C-type asteroids: Perspectives from giant fine-grained micrometeorites

scholarly article

Isotopic and textural analysis of giant unmelted micrometeorites – identification of new material from intensely altered 16O-poor water-rich asteroids

scientific article published in September 2020

Isotopic evolution of planetary crusts by hypervelocity impacts evidenced by Fe in microtektites

scientific article published on 22 September 2021

Isotopically Heavy Micrometeorites—Fragments of CY Chondrite or a New Hydrous Parent Body?

scientific article published in August 2022

I‐Type Cosmic Spherules as Proxy for the Δ′ 17 O of the Atmosphere—A Calibration With Quaternary Air

scientific article published in March 2021

Kamil Crater (Egypt): Ground truth for small-scale meteorite impacts on Earth

scholarly article

Magnetic classification of stony meteorites: 3. Achondrites

scholarly article

Magnetic properties of micrometeorites

scientific article

Major, trace element and oxygen isotope study of glass cosmic spherules of chondritic composition: The record of their source material and atmospheric entry heating

scientific article published in September 2011

Meteorites constrain the age of Antarctic ice at the Frontier Mountain blue ice field (northern Victoria Land)

Meteoritic ablation debris from the Transantarctic Mountains: Evidence for a Tunguska-like impact over Antarctica ca. 480ka ago

scientific article published in April 2010

Meteoritic and bedrock constraints on the glacial history of Frontier Mountain in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

Micrometeorites from the transantarctic mountains

scientific article

Micrometeorites: A possible bias on the sedimentary magnetic record

scientific article published in November 2008

Microscopic impactor debris at Kamil Crater (Egypt): The origin of the Fe-Ni oxide spherules

scientific article published in October 2022

Microscopic impactor debris in the soil around Kamil crater (Egypt): Inventory, distribution, total mass, and implications for the impact scenario

scientific article published in March 2015

Microtektites and glassy cosmic spherules from new sites in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

scholarly article

Microtektites from Victoria Land Transantarctic Mountains

article by L. Folco et al published 2008 in Geology

Miller Butte 03002: a new rare iron meteorite (IID) from Antarctica

Nickel abundance in stony cosmic spherules: Constraining precursor material and formation mechanisms

scientific article published in August 2011

Noble gases in micrometeorites from the Transantarctic Mountains

scientific article published in December 2018

Non-equilibrium melting of partially differentiated asteroids: insights from partial melting experiments on L6 chondrite DAV01001

scientific article published on 27 March 2022

Obsidian and mafic volcanic glasses from the Philippines and Vietnam found in the Paris Museum Australasian tektite collection

scientific article published in 2022

Optical tweezers in a dusty universe

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

Ordinary chondrite-related giant (>800μm) cosmic spherules from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

scientific article published in October 2011

Oxygen isotopes in cosmic spherules and the composition of the near Earth interplanetary dust complex

scientific article published in December 2014

Parentage Identification of Differentiated Achondritic Meteorites by Hand‐held Energy Dispersive X‐Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry

scientific article published in August 2017

Partial melting of an enstatite chondrite at 1 GPa: Implications for early planetary differentiation

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Physical modeling of the influence of bedrock topography and ablation on ice flow and meteorite concentration in Antarctica

scholarly article

Sahara 03505 sulfide‐rich iron meteorite: Evidence for efficient segregation of sulfide‐rich metallic melt during high‐degree impact melting of an ordinary chondrite

scientific article published in February 2009

Shock metamorphism and impact melting in small impact craters on Earth: Evidence from Kamil crater, Egypt

scientific article published on 18 November 2014

Shocked quartz and other mineral inclusions in Australasian microtektites

scholarly article

Sigmoidal exsolution by internal shear stress in pyroxenes from chondritic meteorites

scientific article published in October 2003

Silicate liquid immiscibility in impact melts

scholarly article

Skeletal crystallization of quartz from SiO2 impact melt

scientific article published on 8 October 2020

Space weathering, reddening and gardening of asteroids: A complex problem

scientific article published in January 2007

Statistical properties of the Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) micrometeorite collection

Stretching out the Australasian microtektite strewn field in Victoria Land Transantarctic Mountains

scientific article published in June 2016

Strewn field, mineralogy, and petrology of Al Haggounia 001: A unique enstatite chondrite

scientific article published on 21 January 2024

Study of a set of micrometeorites from Antarctica using magnetic and ESR methods coupled with micro-XRF

Target–projectile interaction during impact melting at Kamil Crater, Egypt

scientific article published in May 2016

The Extraterrestrial Dust Flux: Size Distribution and Mass Contribution Estimates Inferred From the Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) Micrometeorite Collection

scientific article published in February 2020

The Kamil Crater in Egypt

scientific article

The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 95

scientific article published in March 2009

The atmospheric entry of fine-grained micrometeorites: The role of volatile gases in heating and fragmentation

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

The chondritic impactor origin of the Ni-rich component in Australasian tektites and microtektites

scientific article published in November 2023

The extremely reduced silicate-bearing iron meteorite Northwest Africa 6583: Implications on the variety of the impact melt rocks of the IAB-complex parent body

scientific article

The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade

scholarly article

The thermal decomposition of fine-grained micrometeorites, observations from mid-IR spectroscopy

scholarly article

The weathering of micrometeorites from the Transantarctic Mountains

scholarly article

Tracing the oxygen isotope composition of the upper Earth's atmosphere using cosmic spherules

scientific article published on June 2017

Transantarctic Mountain microtektites: Geochemical affinity with Australasian microtektites

scientific article published in June 2009

Vestoid cosmic spherules from the South Pole Water Well and Transantarctic Mountains (Antarctica): A major and trace element study

scholarly article

X‐ray computed tomography: Morphological and porosity characterization of giant Antarctic micrometeorites

scholarly article