The study of the origin and history of the solar system, planets and natural satellites, interplanetary dust and interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, and meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters ...

In a recent paper published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers from the University of Kent examined how the velocity of a passing spacecraft (and the resulting shock of impact ...

Charles Shearer, a research scientist in the Institute of Meteoritics (IOM) and research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) at UNM, was the lead author, along with ...