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    40th ESLAB
    First International Conference on
    Impact Cratering in the Solar System

    Agenda & presentations

    Monday 8 May 2006

    Welcome
    14:00 ESA Welcome
    S.01 - Asteroids, comets and impact flux
    Time No. Last Name, Title

    Abs.

    Talk

    14:30 304623 A. Morbidelli
    Impact flux of asteroids and comets
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    15:00 292083 M. Trieloff
    L chondrite asteroid breakup tied to Ordovician meteorite shower by multiple isochron 40Ar-39Ar dating
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    15:15 291326 M. Dence
    Estimates of impact flux from terrestrial crater counts: the role of gravity and target properties
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    15:30 296311 S. Kelley
    Testing for clustering in the terrestrial impact record: progress through dating ancient craters
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    15:45 295683 M. Le Feuvre
    The asymmetric cratering history of the Moon and terrestrial planets
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    16:00 Coffee Break
    S.02 - Planetary chronology and the Late Heavy Bombardment
    16:30 306424 B. Cohen
    The lunar cataclysm
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    17:00 313244 G. Neukum
    The characteristics of the impact crater production size-frequency distribution on solar system planetary bodies; their relationships to asteroidal and cometary impacts; and cratering chronologies for the terrestrial planets
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    17:30 304676 W.K. Hartmann
    Progress in Martian Chronological Studies from Crater Counts
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    18:00 305384 S.C. Werner
    Mars: secondary cratering
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    18:15 312956 S. van Gasselt
    XCage: an analysis toolkit for the evaluation of crater size frequency distributions and age determinations
    PDF PDF
    18:30 Welcome Reception

     

    Tuesday 9 May 2006

    S.03 - Cratering on Moon, Mercury and Satellites
    Time No. Last Name, Title Abs. Talk
    09:30 367470 P. Pinet
    Craters on the Moon and Mercury: Long-term degradation and modification processes / viscous relaxation as a tool for probing the ancient lunar and hermean crustal rheology
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    10:00 299121 N. Artemieva
    Lunar impact basins and magnetic anomalies - numerical approach
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    10:15 371831 D. Heather
    A geological study of King and Tsiolkovsky craters: implications for the stratigraphy of lunar farside crust
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    10:30 347277 H. Svedhem
    The Hiten lunar impact
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    10:45 345705 B. Foing
    Moon SMART impact: predictions and observation campaign
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    11:00 Coffee Break
    11:30 349958 P. Schenk
    Frozen holes: impact craters on icy satellites
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    12:00 296379 R. Lorenz
    Cratering on Titan: Cassini RADAR results to date and constraints on the crater population
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    12:15 367460 R. Wagner
    The cratering record and cratering chronologies of the Jovian and Saturnian satellites, and the origin of impactors
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    12:30 Demo on Planetary Science Archive and Earth Observation
    13:30 Lunch Break
    S.04 - Cratering on Mars and Venus
    14:30 304056 N. Barlow
    Martian impact craters and their implications for target characteristics
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    15:00 296141 F. Schönian
    Implications for ejecta blankets on Mars from the Ries and Chicxulub impact structures
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    15:15 296248 E. Kraal
    Martian alluvial fans: understanding the crater connection
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    15:30 307245 J.R. Kim
    Automatic crater detection and 3D reconstruction using HRSC and THEMIS Visible images
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    15:45 350502 G. Michael
    HRSCview: crater counting with Mars Express HRSC level-4 data visualisation tool
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    16:00 Coffee Break
    16:30 368079 J. Raitala
    Venusian impact craters
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    17:00 Visit of ESTEC test facility
    18:00 Poster Session 1 (ending at 19:30)

     

    Wednesday 10 May 2006

    S.05 - Terrestrial impact craters and impact petrology
    Time No. Last Name, Title Abs. Talk
    09:30 307063 G. Osinski
    The geological record of meteorite impacts
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    10:00 296087 S. Sherlock
    A new age for the Logoisk impact structure, Belarus and implications for the late eocene comet shower
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    10:15 295499 W. Rösler
    Characterisation of a small crater-like structure in SE Bavaria, Germany
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    10:30 350010 E. Gurov
    El’gygytgyn impact structure at Chukotka (Russia)
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    10:45 296053 M. Di Martino
    Non-impact origin of the crater field in the Gilf Kebir region (SW Egypt)
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    11:00 Coffee Break
    11:30 307616 V.L. Masaitis
    Meteor crater: the century of debates and investigations
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    11:45 280842 U. Riller
    The Sudbury Igneous complex; Canada: evidence for large-meteorite impact during paleoproterozoic orogenic activity
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    12:00 304992 D. Stöffler
    Geologic setting, properties, and classification of terrestrial impact formations
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    12:30 296146 E. Versh
    Mineralogical and stable isotope study of impact-induced hydrothermal carbonate minerals
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    12:45 296030 A. Wittmann
    Chicxulub fireball systematics: implications from the composition and shock metamorphism of its deposits
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    13:00 Lunch Break
    S.06 - Drilling of terrestrial impact craters
    14:30 299456 C. Koeberl
    Continental scientific drilling and the study of terrestrial impact craters
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    15:00 291056 J. Morgan
    Structure of Chicxulub: results from past drilling and targets for future drilling
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    S.07 - Chicxulub: new geophysical studies
    15:15 368081 P. Claeys
    Chicxulub, anatomy of a multi-ring basin: From impactite formation to ejecta distribution
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    15:45 295688 P. Barton
    New geophysical data from the Chicxulub impact crater
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    16:00 Coffee Break
    16:30 296029 M.A. McDonald
    The terrace zone structure of the Chicxulub impact crater Yucatan, Mexico
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    16:45 296048 K. Mendoza-Cervantes
    3D image of the Chicxulub crater peak ring based on 2-D seismic reflection profiles from R/V Maurice Ewing 2005 Survey
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    17:00 296116 A. Surendra
    3-D tomographic imaging of the Chicxulub impact crater
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    17:15 296296 G. Christeson
    Moho structure beneath the Chicxulub impact crater
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    17:30 296339 S.P.S. Gulick
    Structure of the multi-ring Chicxulub impact crater: what fault patterns tell us about pre-existing structures, impact obliquity, and crater collapse
    PDF PDF
    19:00 Conference Dinner

     

    Thursday 11 May 2006

    S.08 - Physics and chemistry of impact cratering
    Time No. Last Name, Title  Abs.  Talk
    09:30 367448 J. Melosh
    The physics and chemistry of impact cratering
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    10:00 295254 S. Yamamoto
    Direct observation of transient crater growth
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    10:15 295418 S. Ohno
    Experimental estimation of chemical reaction rate in vapor clouds
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    10:30 295936 G. Collins
    The effect of porosity and friction on ejection angle and velocity: Insight from numerical modelling
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    10:45 296362 G. Osinski
    Shatter cones of the Haughton impact structure, Canada
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    11:00 Coffee Break
    S.09 - Computer simulations
    11:30 298069 E. Pierazzo
    Numerical modeling of impact cratering
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    12:00 290256 S. Thackrey
    Geological aspects of terrestrial impact cratering rates; simulating the processes and effect of crater removal
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    12:15 295205 N. Artemieva
    Modeling ejecta: volcanoes as analog for impacts
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    12:30 295734 E. Baldwin
    Evaluation of planetary impacts using numerical and experimental techniques
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    12:45 295903 D. de Niem
    Meteorite mass fraction in terrestrial impacts: hydrocode simulations
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    13:00 Lunch Break
    S.10 - Laboratory Experiments
    14:30 351304 D. Baratoux
    Impact craters: from the laboratory scale to the planetary scale
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    15:00 295943 F. Ferri
    Hypervelocity impact experiments into porous targets to study catastrophic fragmentation processes relevant to the evolution of the minor bodies of the Solar System
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    15:15 295803 K. Wünnemann
    Impact cratering on porous targets: comparative study of impact experiments and numerical modeling
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    15:30 296041 M. Gerasimov
    The effect of reduction of elements on their dynamics during an impact.
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    15:45 296079 F. Schaefer
    Impact tests on dry and wet sandstone
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    16:00 Coffee Break
    S.11 - Space missions
    16:30 295808 J. Melosh
    The Deep Impact cratering experiment on Comet 9/P Temple 1
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    17:00 295265 S. Sugita
    A ground-based observation of the first impact experiment on a comet: Deep Impact
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    17:15 292455 N. Hirata
    Impact cratering and post-impact processes on the asteroid 25143 Itokawa
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    18:00 Poster Session 2 (ending at 19:30)

     

    Friday 12 May 2006

    S.12 - Catastrophes and extinctions
    Time No. Last Name, Title Abs. Talk
    09:30 306480 J. Smit
    Crises in the history of life and the record of large impacts
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    10:00 292502 G. Walkden
    Large bolide impacts - Is it only size that counts?
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    S.13 - Life survival and evolution
    10:15 345717 C. Cockell
    Microbial colonization of impact craters
    PDF PDF
    10:45 295892 K. Kirsimäe
    Impact induced hydrothermal systems as potential niches for life
    PDF PDF
    11:00 Coffee Break
    S.14 - Impacts and habitability of Terrestrial Planets
    11:30 367453 K. Fishbaugh
    Effects of impacts on planetary habitability
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    12:00 288838 J. Parnell
    The processing of organic matter in impact craters
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    12:15 Discussion
    13:00 Lunch Break
    14:30

    Fieldtrip Briefing J. Smit
    15:00 ESA Planetary Missions:

    15:00 Mars Express A. Chicarro PDF
    15:15 Venus Express H. Svedhem  
    15:30 Cassini-Huygens J.P. Lebreton  
    15:45 Exo-Mars J. Vago  
    16:00 Rosetta G. Schwehm  
    16:15 BepiColombo J. Benkhoff PDF
    16:30 Adjourn

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