2000 Publications

 

 

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

126      Akridge J.M.C., Benoit P.H., and Sears D.W.G. (2000) Terrestrial age measurements using natural thermoluminscence of a drained zone under the fusion crust of Antarctic ordinary chondrites,  Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35, 869-874.

 

127      Benoit P.H., Sears D.W.G., Akridge J.M.C., Bland P.A., Berry F.J., and Pillinger C.T. (2000a) The non-trivial problem of meteorite pairing. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35, 393-417.

 

128      Krot A.N., Brearley A.J.,Petaev M.I., Kallemeyn G.W., Sears D.W.G., Benoit P.H., Hutcheon I.D., Zolensky M.E., and Keil K. (2000) Evidence for low-temperature growth of fayalite and hedenbergite in MacAlpine Hills 88107, an ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite related to the CM-CO clan.  Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35, 1365-1386.

 

129      Ninagawa K., Soyama K., Ota M., Toyoda S., Imae N., Kojima H., Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (2000a) Thermoluminescence studies of ordinary chondrites in the Japanese Antarctic meteorite collection, II: New measurements for thirty type 3 ordinary chondrites.  Antarct. Meteorit. Res. 13, 112- 120.


Published abstracts and extended abstracts

A180.  Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (2000a) The interpretation of natural thermoluminescence data for meteorites:  Theoretical basis and practical application. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXI, CD-ROM #1396.

 

A180a  Benoit, Paul H.; Sears, Derek W. G. (2000b) The Natural Thermoluminescence Survey of Antarctic Meteorites: Ordinary Chondrites at the Grosvenor Mountains, MacAlpine Hills, Pecora Escarpment and Queen Alexandra Range, and New Data New Data for the Elephant Moraine, Ice Fields.  Workshop on Extraterrestrial Materials from Cold and Hot Deserts, p. 11

 

A181.  Benoit P.H., Ninagawa K., and Sears D.W.G. (2000c) Thermoluminescence sensitivity and thermal history of unequilibrated ordinary chondrites: Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXI, CD-ROM #1394.

 

A182.  Bogdon K., White C., Godsey R., Napieralski N., Schneider D., Benoit P.H., and Sears D.W.G. (2000) The origin of chondrites:  Metal-silicate separation experiments under microgravity conditions.  Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35, A30.

 

A183.  Ferko T.E., M.E. Lipschutz, Bhandari N., Singhvi A.K., Hutchison R., Benoit P.H., Sears D.W.G., Franke L., Scherer P. and Schultz L. (2000) Cosmic Ray products in the Ghubara (L5) regolith breccia.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXI, CD-ROM #1814.

 

A183a  Gorevan, S.; Rafeek, S.; Stroescu, S.; Bartlett, P.; Sears, D. W. G. (2000) Sampling Mechanisms for an Asteroid Sample Return Mission and the Hera Surface Sampler.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, Supplement, p.A61

 

A184.  Grossman J.N., Birch B., Benoit P.H., Sears D.W.G., Clayton R. N., Rubin A.E., and Chizmadia L.J. (2000) Rainbow: A new CO3 chondrite from Australia. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXI, CD-ROM #1355.

 

A184a  Lepper, K.; Kuhns, C. K.; McKeever, S. W. S.; Sears, D. W. G. (2000) Luminescence Dating of Martian Polar Deposits: Concepts and Preliminary Measurements Using Martian Soil Analogs. International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, p. 107.

 

A185.  Schneider D.M.,Hartmann W.K., Benoit P.H., and Sears D.W.G. (2000) Fusion crust simulation and the search for Martian sediments on earth. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXI, CD-ROM #1388.

 

A185a  Sears, D. W. G.; Clark, B. C. (2000) Sample Collection Devices for Near-Earth Asteroid Sample Return.  Near-Earth Asteroid Sample Return Workshop, p. 46

 

A186.  Sears D. W. G., Brownlee D. D., Pieters C. M., Lindstrom M. L., Britt D., Clark B. C., Gefert L., Gorevan S. and Preble J. (2000)  Hera:  Multiple near-Earth Asteroid Sample Return.  Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 32, #26.10.

 

A186a  Sears, D. W. G.; Brownlee, D. D.; Pieters, C.; Lindstrom, M.; Britt, D.; Clark, B. C.; Gefert, L.; Gorevan, S.; Preble, J. C. (2000) A Multiple Near-Earth Asteroid Sample Return Mission Called Hera.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, Supplement, p.A145

 

A186b Sears, Derek W. G.; Lepper, Kenneth; McKeever, W. S. (2000) Optical Dating of Martian Eolian Sediments by Robotic Spacecraft.  Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration, p. 277.

 

A187.  Sears D. W. G., Pieters C. M., Brownlee D. E., Lindstrom M. M. and Britt D. (2000).  The case for near-Earth sample return.  Near-Earth Asteroid Sample Return Workshop.  Lunar and Planetary Institute Publication 1073.

 

A188.  Sears D.W.G., Stites W.E., Kral T., Roe L., Benoit P.H., McKeever S.W.S., Lepper K., Kochan H., and Huebner W. (2000) Andromeda:  A large environmental chamber for planetary science research. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXI, CD-ROM #1464.

 

Popular and non-refereed articles

 

P62.     Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (2000c) Natural thermoluminescence (NTL) data for Antarctic meteorites.  Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 23(1), 21.

 

P63.     Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (2000d) Natural thermoluminescence (NTL) data for Antarctic meteorites.  Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 23(2), 21-22.

 

P64.     Sears D. W. G. (2000a)  Meteorites (Summary of progress in meteorite research during 1999)  Geotimes, July issue, 44-47.

 

P64b    Sears, D. W. G. (2000b)  Editorial - Meteoritics and Planetary Science in the next millennium. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, no. 1, p. 3 (2000).

 

P64a    Sears, D. W. G. (2000c)  Editorial - Returning to our roots.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 35, p.A5-A5.

 

P64c    Sears, D. W. G. (2000d)  Editorial - 1999 Appreciations.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, no. 1, p. 7 (2000).

 

P64d    Sears, D. W. G. (2000e)  Editorial - The tight-lipped chondrites.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 443 (2000).

 

P64e    Sears, D. W. G. (2000f)  Editorial - The exploration of Mars, martian meteorites, and the search for life.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 35, p.891-892

 

P64f     Sears, D. W. G. (2000g)  Editorial - Meteorites and planetary science for 2001. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 35, p.1125-1125

 

P64g    Sears, D. (2000h) Chondrites. In Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2148. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001. http://eaa.iop.org/abstract/0333750888/2148

 

P64h    Sears, Derek W. G.; Binzel, Richard P.; Gaffey, Michael J.; Kraehenbuehl, Urs; Pieters, Carle M.; Shaw, Denis; Wieler, Rainer; Brownlee, Donald E.; Goldstein, Joseph I.; Lyon, Ian C. (2000)  Meteoritics and Planetary Science Supplement. Journal Issue, Meteoritical Society Piscataway, NJ United States

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