Program of PIECE'99
 
 
International Symposium on
Planetary Impact Events and their Consequences on Earth
 
 
 
 
September 27 (Monday) : 4F Hall of Pal-Lu Plaza Yamaguchi

9:00 Welcoming Addresses

PIECE Committee (K. Takayama)
IGCP Committee (R. Tsuchi)
Yamaguchi University (H. Hironaka)
Introduction Remarks of PIECE (Y. Miura)
  9:30 SESSION 1 (Plenary): Impacts and Galactic Evolution
1. Keynote Lecture: The Giant Impact and the Formation of the Earth-Moon System (A. G. W. Cameron)
2. SPH simulation of giant impact (J. Makino and E. Kokubo)
3. Moon Formation by Multi-Impact Processes (Y. Miura and M. Okamoto)
 
11:10 SESSION 2 (Plenary): Life in the Solar System
4. Keynote Lecture: Potential Biomarkers in Martian Meteorites (D. S. McKay, K. Thomas-Keprta, E. K. Gibson, S. J. Wentworth and F. Westall)
5. Origin of Life -- C-H-O System Materials on the Earth and Mars (Y. Miura)
6. Fluorescent Microscope for Cosmobiology (T. Saito, Y. Kawasaki, K. Kobayashi and A. Miyakawa)

12:30-13:30 Lunch break
 

13:30 SESSION 3 (Plenary): Impact Events, Consequences and Geological Boundaries
    7. Keynote Lecture: Evidence for Periodic Comet Showers and Mass Extinctions on Earth (M. R. Rampino)
    8. The Ultra-Long Period Temporal Variations of the Cratering Rate on the Earth-Moon System (T. Morota and M. Furumoto)
    9. Mass Extinction and Environmental Changes at the Cretaceous/Tertiary and Permian/Triassic Boundaries (K. Kaiho, Y. Kajiwara, K. Tazaki, M. Ueshima, Y. Miura, H. Kawahata, T. Arinobu, R. Ishiwatari, N. Takeda, M. A. Lamolda, Z. Chen, T. Mochinaga and T. Ohashi)
    10. An Hybrid Model (Impact and Volcanism) for the Permian-Triassic Boundary Mass Extinction (R. J. Azmi)
    11. Were End-Triassic Extinctions Impact Related ? (F. Hirsch, G. Buryi and Y. Katz)

    15:30 Coffee break
     
    12. Carbon Source from Limestone Target by Impact Reaction at the K/T Boundary (Y. Miura, M A. Kedves and H. Kobayashi)
    13. Is the KT Boundary Event Consistent with an Impact Hypothesis ? (S. Yabushita)
    14. Nio and Kuga Meteorites Fallen in Yamaguchi, Japan - Spherules from Nio Meteorite Showers (Y. Miura)
    15. "Takamatsu Crater" beneath the Takamatsu Plain in Western Japan -- Impact Crater ? (Y. Kono, M. Furumoto and T. Nagao)
    16. Impact-Related Spherules and Zircons at the Takamatsu Crater of Japan (Y. Miura, S. Fukuyama, I. Williams and M. Hayashizaki)
     

18:00 Reception: New Tanaka Hotel, 2F, Hei-An-no-Ma Room
    Greetings (PIECE, IGCP, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi City, and so on)
     
     
September 28 (Tuesday): 4th Floor of Pal-Lu Plaza Yamaguchi

9:00 SESSION 4 (Plenary; 4F Hall): Planetary Exploration

17. Keynote Lecture: The Return of Astromaterials to Earth Over the Next Decade (M. E. Zolensky)
18. Keynote Lecture: Current status of MUSES-C mission (Near Earth Asteroid Sample Return) (A. Fujiwara)
19. Initial Results of MDC (Mars Dust Counter) Onboard NOZOMI (S. Sasaki, E. Igenbergs, H. Ohashi, R. Muenzenmayer, W. Naumann, M. Born, G. Hofschuster, G. Faber, F. Fischer, H. Miyamoto, Y. Hamabe, A. Fujiwara, K. Morishige, A. Glasmachers, E. Gruen, H. Iglseder, T. Mukai, K. Nogami, G. Schwehm, H. Svedhem and K. Yamakoshi)
20. Keynote Lecture: Spacecraft Assessment of the Microparticulate Environment in Near-Earth Space (H. Yano)
21. Keynote Lecture: System to Detect Potentially Hazardous Objects --- Japanese NEO Telescopes --- (S. Isobe and Japan Spaceguard Association)

12:00-13:00 Lunch break

 
13:00 SESSION 5 (Room A): Meteorites and Extraterrestrial Environment   
 		 13:00 SESSION 6 (Room B): Cosmic and Terrestrial Spherules  
 
22. Keynote Lecture: Radiocarbon Terrestrial Ages of Desert Meteorites (J. T. Jull, P. A. Bland, S. E. Klandrud, L. R. McHargue and A. W. R. Bevan)  31. Keynote Lecture: Fe-Ni-Si Grains Formed by Impact Reaction Found at Spherules of Impact Craters, Meteorite Showers and Geological Boundaries. (Y. Miura) 
23. Asteroidal Water Within Fluid Inclusion-Bearing Halite in an H5 Chondrite (M. E. Zolensky)  32. INAA Results for Glassy Spherules Collected From the Dome Fuji Station, Antarctica (T. Fukuoka, Y. Tazawa, K. Nogami and R. Ohmori) 
24. The Dust Trail Structure of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle (O. Ohshima, and Leonids'98 Executive Committee in Japan)  33. Field Survey of Spherules and Other Microminerals From the Taut Meteorite Fall Area (Arad County, Romania) (Á. Hadnagy, Y. Miura and G. Iancu)
25. On the Paleo-Magnetosphere: Effects of the Interstellar Medium Based on Laboratory Simulations (S. Minami and S. Miono)   34. Features of Microparticles Collected around Akaogi Bay, Amami-Ohshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture (T. Sasaki, Y. Tazawa, K. Nogami and R. Ohmori) 
26. Relative Mineral Abundance of Individual Antarctic Micrometeorites Determined by X-ray Diffraction (T. Nakamura, T. Yada, T. Noguchi, Y. Nakamuta and N. Takaoka)  35. On Cosmic Spherule Composition: Gravitation + Thermodynamics (N. Fay, B. Lukacs, K. Martinas and Sz. Berczi)  
15:00 Coffee break  15:00 Coffee break 
27.Keynote Lecture: The Space Weathering Trend of Lunar and S-Asteroid Surfaces (T. Hiroi)  36. Keynote Lecture: The Role of Spherules in the Stratigraphy of the Solar System (Sz. Berczi, Gy. Don, A. Fabriczy, A. Hadnagy, B. Lukacs, Y. Miura and P. Solt) + Spherules: Videofilm (Sz. Berczi Cs. Detre , Gy. Don, A. Fabriczy, K. Gal-Solymos, A. Hadnagy, O. Kakay-Szabo, Á. Kiss, B. Lukacs, G. Marosi, Y. Miura, P. Solt and L. Szabo Soki) 
28. Would We Detect a Semi-Recent Impact of an Icy Tunguska on Clay? (A. Arday, Sz. Berczi, B. Lukacs, Gy. Don and P. Solt)   37. Italian Cosmic Spheres: State of the Art (A. Colombetti and F. Nicolodi) 
29. Possible Evidence of Inhomogeneous Nucleation of Planets: Discovery of Native Iron Nuggets in Paleozoic-Mesozoic Bedded Chert (S. Miono)   38. Fieldwork and Distribution of Spherules at the Kaba III (CV 3) Meteorite Fall Area (P. Solt) 
 
30. Unbrecciated Holocrystalline Meteorite 1152: Impactite or Crystalline Achondrite with Howardite Compositions? (K. Yanai)  39. Probable Evidence of an Atlantic Ocean Meteorite Impact (R. Quevedo and Y. Miura) 
 
  18:00 Public lectures: 4F Hall of Pal-Lu Plaza Yamaguchi
    Title: The Solar System, Moon, Earth and Life
    Speakers: A. G. W. Cameron, D. S. McKay, M. Rampino, M. E. Zolensky
     
September 29 (Wednesday): Rooms A & B of 4F Hall of Pal-Lu Plaza Yamaguchi
 
 
9:00 SESSION 7 (Room A): Minerals and Impact-Induced Material Transformations  
 		 9:00 SESSION 8 (Room B): Impact-Related Simulations and Experiments  

 
40. Keynote Lecture: Discovery of Shock-Induced Reconstructive Graphite-Diamond Phase Transformations in Polished Thin Sections of Shocked Gneisses from the Ries Crater, Germany (A. El Goresy, M. Chen, P. Gillet, F. Kunstler and V. Stahle) 47. Keynote Lecture: Numerical Simulation of Hypervelocity Impacts and Its Related Topics (S. Nonaka, K. Okano, K. Takayama and M. Katayama) 
 
41. Keynote Lecture: Diamond Carbon and Shocked Silica at Meteorite Craters and Shock Experiments (Y. Miura , M.A. Kedves and H. Kobayashi) 48. Observation of Impact Craters Generated by Hypervelocity Impact (Y. Hamabe, H. Ohashi, T. Kawamura, S. Sasaki, K. Nogami, S. Hasegawa and H. Shibata)
42. The Effect of the Mixed State of the Sample for Impact Metamorphism of Carbonaceous Material (T. Murae, Y. Mori and A. Yamori) 49. Velocity Distribution of Fragments from Oblique Impact Cratering on Cohesive Targets (N. Onose and A. Fujiwara)
43. Shock-Loaded Dolomite -- an X-Ray Powder Diffraction Study (R. Skala, F. P. Horz and P. Jakes) 50. Development of Onboard Impact Ionization TOF Mass Spectrometer (H. Ohashi, Y. Hamabe, T. Kawamura, S. Sasaki, K. Nogami, S. Hasegawa, H. Shibata, G. Hofschuster and E. Igenbergs) 
44. Correlation between Crystallographic Structure and Infrared Spectra of SiO Films Containing Fe or Mg Atoms (N. Suzuki, S. Kimura, Y. Kimura, T. Nakada, C. Kaito, Y. Saito, C. Koike) 51. Experimental Investigation of Shock Wave Attenuation in Basalt (S. Nakazawa, S. Watanabe, Y. Iijima and M. Kato)
45. Zeolite Minerals Altered from Basement Rocks at the Takamatsu Buried Crater (M. Okamoto and Y. Miura)  52. Laser-Based Experimental Studies of Hypervelocity Impact Effects on Carbon-Bearing Targets (M. A. Kedves and Y. Miura)
46. Studies on the Surface Active Sites and Their Variation of Mineral Dusts (F. Dong, P. Wan, Q. Feng, G. Song, T. Peng P. Li and G. Li) 53. ESR and Luminescence Research on Radiation-Induced Defects in Impacted Quartz, Synthesized Stishovite and Naturally Obtained Shocked Quartz from an Impact Crater (C. Yamanaka, A. Tani, H. Matsumoto and M. Ikeya)
54. Raman and Luminescence Spectra of Artificially Shocked Forsterite (I. Shinno)
 

POSTER SESSION

55. Once More About the Recurrent Glassy Spherulae in Hungary (Comparisons with Glassy Spherules from Dome Fuji, Antarctica) (Sz. Berczi, Gy. Don, B. Lukacs and P. Solt)
56. Antarctica and Mars: Comparative Planetary Geology and Onsite Experiments -- Modeling via the Robotics of a Rover and the Hunveyor Lander (Sz. Berczi, B. Drommer, K. Granicz, Sz. Toth, T. Diosy, A. Sz. Fabriczy, S. Hegyi, V. Cech, T. Borbola and F. Rosko)
57. Statistics of Na Data of the NIPR Catalog (Sz. Berczi and B. Lukacs)
58. Evidence from Black-Carbon Grains in Ejecta Cloud for Multi-Ignition of Fires by Thermal Radiation at 4000 B.P. (M.-A. Courty)
59. Evidence for Ancient Martian Life (E. K. Gibson Jr., F. Westall, D. S. McKay, K. Thomas-Keprta, S. J. Wentworth and C. S. Romanek)
60. A Preparation System to Measure the Carbon-14 Terrestrial Ages of Meteorites with a Tandetron AMS at Nagoya University (M. Minami, T. Nakamura, H. Oda and N. Takaoka)
61. Terrestrial Environmental Ages of Antarctic Meteorites -- 14C Terrestrial, Exposed and Glacial Ages (Y. Miura)
62. Impact-Related Materials in Japan (Y. Miura)
63. Crystal Structure Parameters as a Measure of the Degree of Shock Metamorphism in Quartz (R. Skala)
64. Interstellar and Interplanetary Panspermia (M. K. Wallis and N. C. Wickramasinghe)
 
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65. The Astronomical Connection of Terrestrial Evolution: New Evidence of Comet Clusters, Buried Mega-Impact Structures and Fallout Deposits of Terrestrial Mare (A. Glikson)
66. Impacts and Earth History (R. A. F. Grieve)
67. Impact Basins and Crustal Evolution (R. A. F. Grieve, M. Cintala, A. Therriault)
68. Meteoroid Impact into the Ocean: Impact on Stratospheric Ozone (B. A. Klumov)
69. Lunar Ice: Can its Origin be Determined? (B. A. Klumov)
70. Recognition of Marine-Target Craters (J. Ormo and M. Lindstrom)
71. Spherule-Bearing Mesozoic Formations of Hungary: Petrography of the Enclosing Rocks (I. Viczian)