Impact Field
Studies Group


LINKS TO OTHER SITES:
 

 
DATABASES:
 
  • Explosive and Impact Crater Database and Size Estimator

    • This link contains a database summarizing over 1500 explosive and impact craters, including both small laboratory experiments and the large explosive terrestrial craters formed by conventional and nuclear explosives. There is also an HTML-based javascript application that allows estimates of of crater size, shape, etc., to be calculated for various input parameters. The javascript application uses scaling laws developed from the database results. The web page is maintained by Keith Holsapple and Kevin Housen.
     
  • Databases at LPI

    • LPI has databases, with imagery and descriptions, of all Venusian impact craters and impact craters on Ganymede greater than ~30 km in diameter. The Lunar Orbiter Atlas of the Moon also allows impact craters to be searched for by name or location.
     
  • Mars Crater Consortium

    • A group dedicated to understanding the Martian cratering record. Site includes links to databases of Martian craters and information about meetings and publications related to Mars cratering.
     
  • Databases at USGS Flagstaff

    • The Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature is comprehensive in its listing of names, locations, and diameters for large impact craters on the solid bodies of the solar system. A database of Venusian impact craters with descriptive information for the craters is also presented.
     
    GLOBAL IMPACTS:
     
  • Earth Impact Database   (Planetary and Space Science Centre, Univ. of New Brunswick)

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  • Terrestrial Impact Craters and Their Environmental Effects   (LPL, Univ. of Arizona)

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  • Terrestrial Impact Craters   (University College London)

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  • Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards   (NASA)

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  • Global Impact Studies Project

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    NORTH AMERICAN IMPACTS:
     
  • Barringer Meteorite Crater   (Barringer Crater Company)

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  • My Aerial Explorations of Terrestrial Meteorite Craters (updated Jan 9, 2008)   (Charles O'Dale, The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada)

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  • Odessa Meteor Craters   (Univ. of TX of the Permian Basin)

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  • The Chesapeake Bay Bolide   (Wylie Poag, USGS)

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  • Sierra Madera Astrobleme   (Univ. of TX of the Permian Basin)

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  • Investigating the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater   (USGS)

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  • Upheaval Dome   (John Louie, University of Nevada)

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  • Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure   (College of William & Mary)

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  • Upheaval Dome   (National Park Service)

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  • Chicxulub Impact Event   (LPL, Univ. of Arizona)

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  • The Wetumpka Impact Structure   (Auburn University)

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  • Chicxulub Scientific Drilling Project

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  • Wetumpka Impact Crater Page   (David King, Auburn University)

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  • Meteor Crater   (Meteor Crater Enterprises)

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  • Drilling into the Wetumpka Impact Crater, Alabama   (David King, Auburn University)

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  • NASA-Haughton Mars Project   (Mars on Earth)

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    EUROPEAN IMPACTS:
     
  • Spanish Impact Structures:  Azuara & Rubielos de la Cerida impact structures   (Ernston Claudin Impact Structures)

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  • Impact Craters in Finland & NW Russia   (Oulu University, Finland)

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    AFRICAN IMPACTS:
     
  • Meteorite Craters on the African Continent   (Image-Contrails)

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    EDUCATION:
     
  • Exploring Planets in the Classroom:  Impact Craters   (Hawai'i Space Grant Consortium)
     
  • NASA Observatorium Teacher's Guides:  Impact Craters   (NASA)

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    PLANETARY SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS:
     
  • Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences   (University of Tennessee)
     
  • Dept. of Planetary Sciences   (Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona)
     
  • Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences   (Washington University)
     
  • Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences   (Caltech)
     
  • Dept. of Geological Sciences:  Planetary   (Arizona State University)
     
  • Planetary Science Group (University of Alaska - Fairbanks)
     
  • Dept. of Geology & Planetary Sciences   (University of Pittsburgh)

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    PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTES:
     
  • Lunar & Planetary Science Institute   (Universities Space Researchers Association)

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  • Planetary Geosciences Institute   (Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee)

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