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    Simulating Meteorite impacts in the a Lab

    February 3, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Scanning electron microscopy image of the micro-structure of albite prior to the rapid compression experiments. The image spans about 0.036 millimetres. Credit: Stony Brook University, Lars Ehm

    Scientists monitor the response of feldspar minerals to rapid compression. A US-German research team has simulated meteorite impacts in the lab and followed the resulting structural changes in two feldspar minerals with X-rays as they happened. The results of the experiments at DESY and at Argonne National Laboratory in the US show that structural changes can occur at very different pressures, depending on the compression rate...

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