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 | ||
| 15:00 | 292083 | M. Trieloff L chondrite asteroid breakup tied to Ordovician meteorite shower by multiple isochron 40Ar-39Ar dating | ||
| 15:15 | 291326 | M. Dence Estimates of impact flux from terrestrial crater counts: the role of gravity and target properties | ||
| 15:30 | 296311 | S. Kelley Testing for clustering in the terrestrial impact record: progress through dating ancient craters | ||
| 15:45 | 295683 | M. Le Feuvre The asymmetric cratering history of the Moon and terrestrial planets | ||
| 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| S.02 - Planetary chronology and the Late Heavy Bombardment | ||||
| 16:30 | 306424 | B. Cohen The lunar cataclysm | ||
| 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 | ||
| 17:30 | 304676 | W.K. Hartmann Progress in Martian Chronological Studies from Crater Counts | ||
| 18:00 | 305384 | S.C. Werner Mars: secondary cratering | ||
| 18:15 | 312956 | S. van Gasselt XCage: an analysis toolkit for the evaluation of crater size frequency distributions and age determinations | ||
| 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 | ||
| 10:00 | 299121 | N. Artemieva Lunar impact basins and magnetic anomalies - numerical approach | ||
| 10:15 | 371831 | D. Heather A geological study of King and Tsiolkovsky craters: implications for the stratigraphy of lunar farside crust | ||
| 10:30 | 347277 | H. Svedhem The Hiten lunar impact | ||
| 10:45 | 345705 | B. Foing Moon SMART impact: predictions and observation campaign | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 | 349958 | P. Schenk Frozen holes: impact craters on icy satellites | ||
| 12:00 | 296379 | R. Lorenz Cratering on Titan: Cassini RADAR results to date and constraints on the crater population | ||
| 12:15 | 367460 | R. Wagner The cratering record and cratering chronologies of the Jovian and Saturnian satellites, and the origin of impactors | ||
| 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 | ||
| 15:00 | 296141 | F. Schönian Implications for ejecta blankets on Mars from the Ries and Chicxulub impact structures | ||
| 15:15 | 296248 | E. Kraal Martian alluvial fans: understanding the crater connection | ||
| 15:30 | 307245 | J.R. Kim Automatic crater detection and 3D reconstruction using HRSC and THEMIS Visible images | ||
| 15:45 | 350502 | G. Michael HRSCview: crater counting with Mars Express HRSC level-4 data visualisation tool | ||
| 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:30 | 368079 | J. Raitala Venusian impact craters | ||
| 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 | ||
| 10:00 | 296087 | S. Sherlock A new age for the Logoisk impact structure, Belarus and implications for the late eocene comet shower | ||
| 10:15 | 295499 | W. Rösler Characterisation of a small crater-like structure in SE Bavaria, Germany | ||
| 10:30 | 350010 | E. Gurov El’gygytgyn impact structure at Chukotka (Russia) | ||
| 10:45 | 296053 | M. Di Martino Non-impact origin of the crater field in the Gilf Kebir region (SW Egypt) | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 | 307616 | V.L. Masaitis Meteor crater: the century of debates and investigations | ||
| 11:45 | 280842 | U. Riller The Sudbury Igneous complex; Canada: evidence for large-meteorite impact during paleoproterozoic orogenic activity | - | |
| 12:00 | 304992 | D. Stöffler Geologic setting, properties, and classification of terrestrial impact formations | ||
| 12:30 | 296146 | E. Versh Mineralogical and stable isotope study of impact-induced hydrothermal carbonate minerals | ||
| 12:45 | 296030 | A. Wittmann Chicxulub fireball systematics: implications from the composition and shock metamorphism of its deposits | ||
| 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 | ||
| 15:00 | 291056 | J. Morgan Structure of Chicxulub: results from past drilling and targets for future drilling | ||
| S.07 - Chicxulub: new geophysical studies | ||||
| 15:15 | 368081 | P. Claeys Chicxulub, anatomy of a multi-ring basin: From impactite formation to ejecta distribution | ||
| 15:45 | 295688 | P. Barton New geophysical data from the Chicxulub impact crater | ||
| 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:30 | 296029 | M.A. McDonald The terrace zone structure of the Chicxulub impact crater Yucatan, Mexico | ||
| 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 | ||
| 17:00 | 296116 | A. Surendra 3-D tomographic imaging of the Chicxulub impact crater | ||
| 17:15 | 296296 | G. Christeson Moho structure beneath the Chicxulub impact crater | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 10:00 | 295254 | S. Yamamoto Direct observation of transient crater growth | ||
| 10:15 | 295418 | S. Ohno Experimental estimation of chemical reaction rate in vapor clouds | ||
| 10:30 | 295936 | G. Collins The effect of porosity and friction on ejection angle and velocity: Insight from numerical modelling | ||
| 10:45 | 296362 | G. Osinski Shatter cones of the Haughton impact structure, Canada | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| S.09 - Computer simulations | ||||
| 11:30 | 298069 | E. Pierazzo Numerical modeling of impact cratering | ||
| 12:00 | 290256 | S. Thackrey Geological aspects of terrestrial impact cratering rates; simulating the processes and effect of crater removal | ||
| 12:15 | 295205 | N. Artemieva Modeling ejecta: volcanoes as analog for impacts | ||
| 12:30 | 295734 | E. Baldwin Evaluation of planetary impacts using numerical and experimental techniques | ||
| 12:45 | 295903 | D. de Niem Meteorite mass fraction in terrestrial impacts: hydrocode simulations | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch Break | |||
| S.10 - Laboratory Experiments | ||||
| 14:30 | 351304 | D. Baratoux Impact craters: from the laboratory scale to the planetary scale | ||
| 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 | ||
| 15:15 | 295803 | K. Wünnemann Impact cratering on porous targets: comparative study of impact experiments and numerical modeling | ||
| 15:30 | 296041 | M. Gerasimov The effect of reduction of elements on their dynamics during an impact. | ||
| 15:45 | 296079 | F. Schaefer Impact tests on dry and wet sandstone | ||
| 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| S.11 - Space missions | ||||
| 16:30 | 295808 | J. Melosh The Deep Impact cratering experiment on Comet 9/P Temple 1 | ||
| 17:00 | 295265 | S. Sugita A ground-based observation of the first impact experiment on a comet: Deep Impact | ||
| 17:15 | 292455 | N. Hirata Impact cratering and post-impact processes on the asteroid 25143 Itokawa | ||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:00 | 292502 | G. Walkden Large bolide impacts - Is it only size that counts? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S.13 - Life survival and evolution | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:15 | 345717 | C. Cockell Microbial colonization of impact craters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:45 | 295892 | K. Kirsimäe Impact induced hydrothermal systems as potential niches for life | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S.14 - Impacts and habitability of Terrestrial Planets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:30 | 367453 | K. Fishbaugh Effects of impacts on planetary habitability | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:00 | 288838 | J. Parnell The processing of organic matter in impact craters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:15 | Discussion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13:00 | Lunch Break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14:30 | 
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| 15:00 | ESA Planetary Missions: 
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| 16:30 | Adjourn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Poster Sessions
Poster Session 1 - Tuesday 9 May 2006
| No. | Title, Name | Abs. | Poster | 
| 287786 | High accuracy matching of planetary images G. Vacanti | ||
| 295175 | Hydrodynamical and radiative transfer modeling of impact flashes L. Chambers | ||
| 295225 | Collisions history in the main-belt by spectroscopic methods M. Birlan | ||
| 295234 | Probabilities of collisions of Jupiter-family comets with the terrestrial planets S. Ipatov | ||
| 295538 | Impact simulation with fracture and porosity M. Jutzi | ||
| 295577 | Laboratory impact cratering on ice-silicate mixture targets K. Hiraoka | ||
| 295644 | Automated crater recognition: one goal, many paths L. Bandeira | ||
| 295760 | Development and preliminary application of novel equations of state for geological materials and ice P. Church | ||
| 295972 | Investigation of impact cratering processes into porous targets through hypervelocity experiment and simulations C. Giacomuzzo | ||
| 296109 | Shock response and hypervelocity impact cratering on sandstone E. Taylor | ||
| 296246 | Discovery of the duality of asteroid 21 Lutetia V. Busarev | ||
| 296352 | Comprehensive thermal model of a buried frozen crater lake C. Plesko | ||
| 299720 | The 3.26-3.24 Ga impact cataclysm in the Earth-Moon system: geochemical evidence and geodynamic consequences A. Glikson | ||
| 302060 | A time estimate for consolidation and disintegration of an asteroid-rubble pile. The simplest model. A preliminary analysis. A. Sanovich | ||
| 304812 | Modeling of impact break-up on the basis of the data concerning the largest craters on the small Solar System bodies J. Leliwa-Kopystynski | ||
| 306870 | SMART-1 lunar science highlights: impact cratering B.H. Foing | ||
| 292092 | New analysis of the lunar impact crater Tycho G. Cremonese | ||
| 307610 | The Orientale basin topography on the Moon M. Shpekin | ||
| 356436 | Distribution of Martian crater floors with fractures and/or depressions J. Korteniemi | ||
| 295980 | Shock degree and petrological features of the Ohaba chondrite G.O. Iancu | JPG | |
| 371144 | Modelling crater shapes with Gaussian random spheres T. Tchumatchenko | ||
| 280204 | About comet hypothesis of water ice origin on Mercury A. Berezhnoy | ||
| 288905 | Numerical modelling of impact cratering on the Moon and icy satellites - How thick is Europa's crust? V. Bray | ||
| 295369 | Numerical simulations of impacts in deep water basins: Behaviour of impactors of various types V. Svetsov | ||
| 375473 | Sedimentary and Paleoclimatic research on the Promethei Basin in the south polar cap of Mars E. Velasco Dominguez | JPG | |
| 292192 | A new search strategy for detecting impact structures - Examples from Fennoscandia S. Dayioglu | 
Poster Session 2 - Thursday 11 May 2006
| No. | Title, Name | Abs. | Poster | 
| 296591 | High-density phases formation under asteroid impacts (experimental evidence and geological data) V. Fel'dman | ||
| 303959 | The meteoritic nature of the calderas of the lakes Svetlojar and Nestiar A. Kiselev | ||
| 286769 | Excavation efficiencies in three-dimensional simulations of the Chicxulub meteor impact G. Gisler | ||
| 289302 | Preservation of biological signature within impact melt breccias: Haughton impact structure P. Lindgren | ||
| 291065 | Chicxulub: crater structure revealed with new seismic and gravity data J. Morgan | ||
| 292404 | Some geochemical and isotopic features of the tagamites of the Yanisyarvi Astrobleme (Karelia, Russia) Y. Larionova | ||
| 292424 | Geophysical signatures indicate a possible impact crater in SW-Hungary M. Kis | ||
| 292620 | The anatomy of a new impact deposit: the late Triassic spherule layer, SW England. G. Walkden | ||
| 292685 | Stratigraphy of the Basal Paleocene sequence and the impact Breccia–Carbonate contact in the Chicxulub crater: Implications for carbonate deposition and early development of the basin J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi | ||
| 295131 | Three-dimensional structure into the Chicxulub crater, determined from gravity and magnetic data J.A. Batista | ||
| 295200 | Eocene glass spherule-bearing turbidites in eastern Adriatic Flysch - Evidence of multiple impacts into sedimentary targets? T. Marjanac | ||
| 295244 | The Korchazh impact structure A. Mikheeva | ||
| 295464 | Carbon spherules with diamonds in soils W. Rösler | JPG | |
| 295739 | Vanadyl porphyrins of ancient marine kerogens and terminal Cretaceous-Tertiary event P. Premovic | ||
| 296012 | Giant asteroid impacts on land: thermochemical equilibrium calculations of high-temperature O2 generation on the early Earth P. Premovic | ||
| 297446 | Rochechouart impact structure: review of ground truth data and constraints on mechanical interpretation P. Lambert | ||
| 305007 | Textural properties of melt particles in the Chicxulub fireball deposits A. Wittmann | ||
| 306509 | Rapid post-impact cooling at Kärdla - Where are the same conditions met? A. Jõeleht | ||
| 295376 | Tracing impact craters by glacial samples in Finland M. Koivisto | ||
| 291227 | The great arc of Eastern Hudson Bay, Canada: part of a multi-ringed impact basin M. Brookfield | ||
| 295211 | Hypothesis on the cratering process involved in the wide dispersion of the 4 kyr Bp impact-debris M.A.-Courty | ||
| 295696 | Determining the origin of the Silverpit Crater, UK southern North Sea: Can you prove the existence of a meteorite crater without geochemical or mineralogical data? Z. Conway | ||
| 306319 | Petrology of impactites from the Logoisk Structure (Bielorussia) L. Glazovskaya | ||
| 313269 | Ballen quartz in impact melt rock from the Dhala impact structure, Bundelkhand Craton, central India J. Pati | ||
| 296350 | 3D joint inversion of travel-time and gravity data across the central part of the Chicxulub impact crater P. Vermeesch | 
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| S.09 - Computer simulations | ||||
| No. | Last Name, Title | Abs. | ||
| 291586 | V. Shuvalov Numerical simulations of the eltanin impact: determination of projectile size and tsunami amplitude | |||
| S.12 - Catastrophes and extinctions | ||||
| No. | Last Name, Title | Abs. | ||
| 297593 | L. Becker The End-Pleistocene Extinction Event – What caused it? | |||
| 305534 | I. Nemchinov Catastrophic consequences of impacts of small asteroids and comets | |||
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Conference Proceedings
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Below the individual entries can be retrieved. They are sorted by session and within each session by first author.
Presentations
| S.01 - Asteroids, comets and impact flux | ||
| No. | Title, Name | Proceedings | 
| 291326 | Estimates of impact flux from terrestrial crater counts: the role of gravity and target properties M. Dence | |
| S.02 - Planetary chronology and the Late Heavy Bombardment | ||
| 304676 | Progress in Martian chronological studies from crater counts W.K. Hartmann | |
| S.04 - Cratering on Mars and Venus | ||
| 304056 | Martian impact craters and their implications for target characteristics N. Barlow | |
| 296248 | Martian alluvial fans: understanding the crater connection E. Kraal | |
| 368079 | Venusian impact craters J. Raitala | |
| S.05 - Terrestrial impact craters and impact petrology | ||
| 296053 | Non-impact origin of the crater field in the Gilf Kebir region (SW Egypt) M. Di Martino | |
| 307616 | The Meteor crater, Arizona: A century of exploration and debates V.L. Masaitis | |
| 307063 | The geological record of meteorite impacts G. Osinski | |
| 295499 | Characterisation of a small crater-like structure in SE Bavaria, Germany W. Rösler | |
| 304992 | Geologic setting, properties, and classification of terrestrial impact formations D. Stöffler | |
| S.07 - Chicxulub: new geophysical studies | ||
| 368081 | Chicxulub, anatomy of a large impact structure: From impactite to ejecta distribution P. Claeys | |
| S.08 - Physics and chemistry of impact cratering | ||
| 296362 | Shatter cones of the Haughton impact structure, Canada | |
| 295254 | Direct observation of transient crater growth S. Yamamoto | |
| S.09 - Computer simulations | ||
| 295734 | Evaluation of planetary impacts using numerical and experimental techniques E. Baldwin | |
| 298069 | Numerical modeling of impact cratering E. Pierazzo | |
| 290256 | Geological aspects of terrestrial impact cratering rates; simulating the processes and effect of crater removal S. Thackrey | |
| S.10 - Laboratory Experiments | ||
| 296079 | Impact experiments on dry and wet sandstone F. Schaefer | |
| S.12 - Catastrophes and extinctions | ||
| 292502 | Large bolide impacts - Is it only size that counts? G. Walkden | |
| S.14 - Impacts and habitability of Terrestrial Planets | ||
| 288838 | The processing of organic matter in impact craters: Implications for the exploration for life J. Parnell | |
Posters
| Poster Session 1 | ||
| No. | Title, Name | Proceedings | 
| 295225 | Collisions history in the main-belt by spectroscopic methods M. Birlan | |
| 296246 | 21 Lutetia as a possible binary system after photometric, frequency and spectral investigations V. Busarev | |
| 295760 | Preparation Development and preliminary application of novel equations of state for geological materials and ice P. Church | |
| 295972 | Investigation of impact cratering processes into porous targets through hypervelocity experiment and simulations C. Giacomuzzo | |
| 295577 | Laboratory impact cratering on ice-silicate mixture targets K. Hiraoka | |
| 295980 | Shock effects and petrological features of the Ohaba chondrit G.O. Iancu | |
| 295538 | Impact simulation with fracture and porosity M. Jutzi | |
| 356436 | Floor-fractured craters on the terrestrial planets - The Martian perspective J. Korteniemi | |
| 302060 | A time estimate for consolidation and disintegration of an asteroid-rubble pile. The simplest model. A preliminary analysis. A. Sanovich | |
| 371144 | Modelling crater shapes with Gaussian random spheres T. Tchumatchenko | |
| 287786 | High accuracy matching of planetary images G. Vacanti | |
| 375473 | Sedimentary and Paleoclimatic research on the Promethei Basin in the south polar cap of Mars E. Velasco Dominguez | |
| Poster Session 2 | ||
| 292424 | The telluric conductivity anomaly at Magyarmecske: Is it a buried impact crater? T. Bodoky | |
| 286769 | Excavation efficiencies in three-dimensional simulations of the Chicxulub meteor impact G. Gisler | |
| 295200 | Glass spherules in upper Eocene Flysch of Croatian Adriatic - Evidence of an impact into carbonate target? T. Marjanac | |
| 295244 | The crater "Yama Korchazhikha" on the website "Catalogue of the Earth's impact structures" A. Mikheeva | |
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