Publications of Elisabetta Pierazzo

Last modified: Nov 30, 2004

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

  1. Richardson J, H.J. Melosh, N.A. Artemieva, E. Pierazzo: Impact cratering theory and modeling for the Deep Impact mission: From mission planning to data analysis, Space Sci. Rev., 117(1-2), 241-267, 2005 .

  2. Turtle, E.P., E. Pierazzo, G.S. Collins, G.R. Osinski, H.J., Melosh, J.V. Morgan, W.U. Reimold, J.G. Spray: Impact structures: What does crater diameter mean? Large Meteorite Impacts (T. Kenkmann, F. Horz, and A. Deutsch, Eds.), Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 384, 1-24.

  3. Pierazzo E., N.A. Artemieva, B.A. Ivanov: Starting conditions for hydrothermal systems underneath Martian craters: Hydrocode modeling, Large Meteorite Impacts (T. Kenkmann, F. Horz, and A. Deutsch, Eds.), Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 384, 443-457.

  4. Pierazzo E., G. Collins: A brief introduction to hydrocode modeling of impact cratering, in Henning D., Burchell, M., Claeys P. (eds.) Impact Studies: "Cratering in Marine Environments and on Ice" (Springer, New York), 323-340, 2003.

  5. Turtle E.P., E. Pierazzo, D.P. O'Brien: Numerical modeling of impact heating of the Vredefort Impact Structure, Meteoritics Planet. Sci. 38(2), 293-303, 2003.

  6. Pierazzo E., A.N. Hahmann, L.C. Sloan: Chicxulub and Climate: Effects of stratospheric injections of impact-produced S-bearing gases, Astrobiology 3, 99-118, 2003.

  7. Hood L.L., N.C. Richmond, E. Pierazzo, P. Rochette: Distribution of Crustal Magnetic Fields on Mars: Shock Effects of Basin-Forming Impacts, Geoph. Res. Lett. 30(6), 10.1029/2002GL016570, 2003.

  8. Stoeffler D., N.A. Artemieva, E. Pierazzo: Modeling the Ries-Steinheim impact event and the formation of the Moldavite strewn field, Meteoritics Planet. Sci. 37, 1893-1908, 2002.

  9. Artemieva N.A., E. Pierazzo, D. Stoeffler: Numerical Modeling of Tektite Origin in Oblique Impacts. Implication to Ries-Moldavites Strewn Field, Bull. Czech Geol. Survey, 77(4), 303-311, 2002.

  10. Bland P.A., C.R. de Souza Filho, A.J.T. Jull, S.P. Kelley, R.M. Hough, N.A. Artemieva, E. Pierazzo, J. Coniglio, L. Pinotti, V. Evers: Rio Cuarto: A possible tektite strewn field in the Argentinian Pampa, Science 296, 1109-1111, 2002.

  11. Pierazzo E., C. F. Chyba: Cometary Delivery of Biogenic Elements to Europa, Icarus 157, 120-127, 2002.

  12. Turtle E.P., E. Pierazzo: Thickness of an Europan Ice Shell from Impact Crater Simulations, Science 294, 1326-1328, 2001.

  13. Pierazzo E., H.J. Melosh: Understanding oblique impacts from experiments, observations, and modeling, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 28, 141-167, 2000.

  14. Pierazzo E., H. J. Melosh: Melt production in oblique impacts, Icarus 145, 252-261, 2000.

  15. Pierazzo E., H. J. Melosh: Hydrocode modeling of oblique impacts: The fate of the projectile, Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 35(1), 117-130, 2000.

  16. Pierazzo E., C. F. Chyba: Amino acid survival in large cometary impacts, Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 34(6), 909-918, 1999.

  17. Schnabel C., E. Pierazzo, S. Xue, G.F. Herzog, J. Masarik, R.G. Cresswell, M.L. di Tada, K. Liu, and L.K. Fifield: Shock melting of the Canyon Diablo impactor: Constraints from Nickel-59 measurements and numerical modeling, Science 285, 85-88, 1999.

  18. Pierazzo E., H. J. Melosh: Hydrocode modeling of Chicxulub as an oblique impact event, EPSL 165, 163-176, 1999.

  19. Pierazzo E., D. A. Kring, H. J. Melosh: Hydrocode simulation of the Chicxulub impact event and the production of climatically active gases, JGR 103, 28607-28626, 1998.

  20. E. P. Turtle and E. Pierazzo: Constraints on the size of the Vredefort impact crater from numerical modeling, Meteoritics and Planetary Sci. 33, 483-490, 1998.

  21. Pierazzo E. A. M. Vickery, H. J. Melosh: A re-evaluation of impact melt production, Icarus 127, 408-423, 1997.

  22. Bergamasco A., E. Pierazzo: L'analisi oggettiva di dati oceanografici, in "Calibrazione e validazione dei modelli numerici con i risultati sperimentali in oceanografia fisica", Supplement of "Annali della facolta` di Scienze Nautiche", I.U.N. (Napoli) 77-80, 1992.

  23. Pierazzo E., S. M. Sartori, V. Vanzani, E. Celotto: A systematic comparison of two different models of cosmogenic nuclide production in meteorites; Il Nuovo Cimento, 13-C, 139-146, 1990.

  24. Pierazzo E., S. M. Sartori: Possible frequency modulation effects singled out by the Fourier Vector Amplitude in a Delta-14C yearly series of Georgian wines, Radiocarbon 31(3), 725-739, 1989.


Other Professional Publications:

  1. Pierazzo E.: Climatic effects associated with the Cretaceous-Tertiary impact event, Invited for the Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments (Kluwer Academic Publ. Earth Science Series). Submitted (Feb. 2004).

  2. Pierazzo E., C.F. Chyba: Impact delivery of pre-biotic organic matter to Earth, Mars, and Europa, Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life II (P.J. Thomas, C.F. Chyba, and C.P. McKay, Eds.) In Press.

  3. Herrick R.R.,Pierazzo E.: Improving Knowledge on Impact Cratering: Bringing Together "Modelers" and "Observationalists", EOS 84(31), 291, 2003.

  4. Herrick R.R.,Pierazzo E.: Results of the Workshop on "Impact Cratering: Bridging the Gap Between Modeling and Observations, February 2003", LPI Contrib. No. 1162, 2003.

  5. Pierazzo E.: Book Review of "Impacts in Precambrian Shields", EOS 84(13), 122, 2003.

  6. Botta, O., D.P. Glavin, E. Pierazzo, P. Ehrenfreund, J.L. Bada,: Exogenous material delivery to Earth-like planets and moons, In B. Foing, B. Battrick Eds, Earth-like planets and moons. 36th ESLAB Conference Proceedings, ESA SP-514, 173-180, 2002.

  7. Pierazzo E.: Organic Material from Comets. Investigating the delivery of Earths' prebiotic inventory by cometary impacts, Astronomy Now 16, 54-56, 2002.

  8. Pierazzo E., A. Bergamasco: Objective Analysis of biochemical data from oceanographic POEM campaigns. Part II: Analysis, Tech. Rep. 204, CNR-ISDGM, Venezia, Italy (1996) 98 pp.

  9. Bergamasco A., E. Pierazzo: Objective Analysis of biochemical data from oceanographic POEM campaigns (part I), Tech. Rep. 162, CNR-ISDGM, Venezia, Italy (1992).


Abstracts:

  1. Pierazzo E.: Numerical modeling of impact cratering, 40th ESLAB Symposium: First International Conference on Impact Cratering in the Solar System, 2006, Abst. #298069.

  2. Canup R.M., Pierazzo E.: Retention of water during planet-scale collisions, 37th LPSC, 2006, Abst. #2146.

  3. Ivanov B.A., Artemieva N.A., Pierazzo E.: Impact cratering and material models: Subsurface volatiles on Mars, Workshop on The Role of Volatiles and Atmospheres on Martian Impact Craters, 2005, Abst. #3015.

  4. Pierazzo E.: Assessing atmospheric water injections from oceanic impacts, 36th LPSC, 2005, Abst. #1987.

  5. Pierazzo E., Artemieva N.A.: Atmospheric fragmentation of the Canyon Diablo meteoroid, 36th LPSC, 2005, Abst. #2325.

  6. Rivkin A.S., Pierazzo E.: Investigating the impact evolution of hydrated asteroids, 36th LPSC, 2005, Abst. #2014.

  7. Chuang F., Pierazzo E., G. Osinski: The explorer's guide to impact craters, 36th LPSC, 2005, Abst. #2390.

  8. Pierazzo E., G. Osinski, F. Chuang: The explorer's guide to impact craters, 2004 AGU Fall Meeting, Abst. #4451, San Francisco, CA, (Dec. 13-17, 2004).

  9. Pierazzo E., N.A. Artemieva, B.A. Ivanov: Characterizing starting conditions for hydrothermal systems underneath Martian craters, 2004 AGU Fall Meeting, Abst. #4368, San Francisco, CA, (Dec. 13-17, 2004).

  10. Pierazzo E.: Oceanic impacts and the environmental effect of atmospheric water injection, 2nd Int. Workshop on Water Dynamics, Sendai, Japan, (Nov. 11-12, 2004).

  11. Pierazzo E., K. Wuennemann: Hydrocode modeling of impact events (abst.), Geol. Soc. Am. 2004, Abst. #74479, Denver, CO, (Nov. 7-10, 2004).

  12. Pierazzo E., N.A. Artemieva, B.A. Ivanov: Characterizing starting conditions for hydrothermal systems underneath Martian craters, 7th Mars Crater Consortium Meeting, Abst. #0702, Flagstaff, AZ, (Oct. 7-8, 2004).

  13. Artemieva N.A., B.A. Ivanov, E. Pierazzo: Modeling impact processes on Mars (abst.), Intern. Mars Conf., Ischia Island, Italy (Sept. 19-23, 2004).

  14. Pierazzo E., N.A. Artemieva, B.A. Ivanov: Starting Conditions for Hydrothermal Systems Underneath Martian Craters: Hydrocode Modeling, 35th LPSC, 2004, Abst. #1352.

  15. Turtle E.P., E. Pierazzo , G.S. Collins, G.R. Osinski, H.J. Melosh, J.V. Morgan, U.W. Reimold, J.G. Spray: Impact structures: What does crater diameter mean? 35th LPSC, 2004, Abst. #1772.

  16. Ivanov B.A., N.A. Artemieva, E. Pierazzo: Popigai impact structure modeling: Morphology and worldwide ejecta, 35th LPSC, 2004, Abst. #1240.

  17. Pierazzo E., N.A. Artemieva, B.A. Ivanov: Starting Conditions for Hydrothermal Systems Underneath Martian Craters: 3D Hydrocode Modeling, 3rd Internat. Conf. on Large Meteorite Impacts, 2003, Abst. #4102.

  18. Pierazzo E., C.F. Chyba: Impact Delivery of Organics to Mars, 34th LPSC, 2003, Abst. #1645.

  19. Rivkin A.S., T. Hiroi, F. Horz, M. Cintala, E. Pierazzo: Spectroscopy of Impacted Serpentine: Implications for Asteroid Surfaces, 34th LPSC, 2003, Abst. #1716.

  20. Hood L.L., N.C. Richmond, E. Pierazzo, P. Rochette: Distribution of crustal magnetic fields on Mars: Shock effects of basin-forming impacts, 34th LPSC, 2003, Abst. #1704.

  21. Artemieva N.A., Pierazzo E.: Oblique Impact and Its Ejecta - Numerical Modeling, Impact Cratering: Bridging the Gap Between Modeling and Observations (2003) Abst. #8036, Houston, TX.

  22. Turtle E.P., Pierazzo E., O'Brien D.P.: Impact heating during formation of the Vredefort impact structure, ESF-IMPACT 8: Impact Tectonism (2002) Mora, Sweden.

  23. Pierazzo E., A.N. Hahmann: Chicxulub and Climate: Investigating the Climate Sensitivity to Stratrospheric Injections of impact-generated S-bearing Gases, 33th LPSC, 2002, Abst. #1269.

  24. Stoeffler D., N.A. Artemieva, E. Pierazzo: Modeling the Ries-Steinheim impact event and the formation of the moldavite strewn field, 33th LPSC, 2002, Abst. #1871.

  25. Canup R.M., E. Asphaug, E. Pierazzo, H.J. Melosh: Simulations of Moon-forming impacts, 33th LPSC, 2002, Abst. #1641.

  26. Pierazzo E., A.N. Hahmann: Investigating the Climate Sensitivity of Stratrospheric Injections of Large Amounts of S-bearing Gases,AGU Fall Meeting 2001 (10-14 Dec. 2001) Abst. #6301.

  27. Bland P.A., C.R. de Souza Filho, R.M. Hough, E. Pierazzo, J. Coniglio, L. Pinotti, A.J.T. Jull, V. Evers:The Rio Cuarto Crater Field Re-visited: Remote Sensing Imagery Analysis and New Field Observations, 64th Meteoritical Society Meeting (10-14 Sept. 2001) Abst. #5319, Rome, Italy.

  28. Stöffler D., A.N. Artemieva, E. Pierazzo, B.A. Ivanov: Ries Crater, Germany: Geology and Numerical Modeling of Impact Cratering, 64th Meteoritical Society Meeting (10-14 Sept. 2001) Abst. # 5180, Rome, Italy.

  29. Pierazzo E., C.F. Chyba: Impact Delivery of Biogenic Elements to Europa, Jupiter: Planet, Satellites & Magnetosphere Conference (25-30 June 2001) Boulder, CO.

  30. Pierazzo E., N. Artemieva, J.N. Spitale: The Ries impact event: A tale of two hydrocodes, ESF-IMPACT 5: Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond (2001) Granada, Spain.

  31. Pierazzo E.: Climate forcing from the stratospheric injection of impact-produced sulfur, 32th LPSC (2001) Abst. #1196, Houston, TX.

  32. Pierazzo E., J.N. Spitale, D.A. Kring: Hydrocode modeling of the Ries impact event, 32th LPSC (2001) Abst. #2106, Houston, TX.

  33. Turtle E.P., E. Pierazzo: Melt production during the formation of impact craters on Europa, 32th LPSC (2001) Abst. #1933, Houston, TX.

  34. Turtle E.P., E. Pierazzo: Vapor and melt production during the formation of impact craters on Europa, AGU Fall Meeting 2000 (2000) Abst. #21062.

  35. Pierazzo E.: Chicxulub and climate: assessing the climate forcing of the sulfate aerosols, IMPACT 2000: Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond (2000) Abst. #3077, Vienna, Austria.

  36. Turtle E.P., E. Pierazzo: Impact heating during formation of the Vredefort structure, IMPACT 2000: Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond (2000) Abst. #3147, Vienna, Austria.

  37. Pierazzo E.: Hydrocode Modeling of Impact Events, Asteroids, Meteorites, Impacts and their Consequences. AMICO 2000 Meeting (2000) p. 42-43, Nördlingen im Ries, Germany.

  38. Turtle E.P., Pierazzo E., Thermal heating during formation of the Vredefort structure, 4th ESF-IMPACT Workshop: Meteorite Impacts in Precambrian Shields (2000) p. 19, Lappajärvi, Finland.

  39. Pierazzo E., C.F. Chyba: Impact Delivery of Organics to Earth, Mars, and Europa, 1st Annual Astrobiology Sci. Conf. (2000) p. 31,NASA-Ames, Moffet Field, CA.

  40. Pierazzo E., C.F. Chyba: Impact Delivery of Organics to Europa [CD-ROM], 31th LPSC (2000), Abst. #1656, Houston, TX.

  41. Alpert A., E. Pierazzo: Venusian Impact Melt Production [CD-ROM], 31th LPSC (2000), Abst. #1486, Houston, TX.

  42. Pierazzo E., C.F. Chyba: Impact Delivery of Organics to Mars, Bull. A.A.S. 31(4), 1183, 1999. 31st Meeting of the Division for Planet. Sci., AAS (1999), Padua, Italy.

  43. Pierazzo E., H.J. Melosh: Melt production in oblique impact events [CD-ROM], 30th LPSC (1999), Abst. #1223, Houston, TX.

  44. Pierazzo E.: Projectile melting in impact events: Shape effects [CD-ROM], 30th LPSC (1999), Abst. #1677, Houston, TX.

  45. Pierazzo E., C. Schnabel, G.F. Herzog, J. Masarik, R.G. Cresswell, M.L. di Tada, K. Liu, and L.K. Fifield: Constraints on the formation of Canyon Diablo spheroids from numerical modeling and Nickel-59 measurements [CD-ROM], 30th LPSC (1999), Abst. #1267, Houston, TX.

  46. Pierazzo E., C.F. Chyba, Amino acid survivability in large impacts, in Impacts and the Early Earth Workshop, Cambridge, UK (December 1998)

  47. Pierazzo E., H. J. Melosh: Hydrocode modeling of oblique impacts: The fate of the projectile, in Origin of the Earth and Moon Conf., Monterey, CA (1998)

  48. Pierazzo E., C. F. Chyba, Amino acid survivability in large cometary impacts, 61th Meteoritical Society Meeting, Dublin, Ireland (1998)

  49. Pierazzo E., D. A. Crawford, Modeling Chicxulub as an oblique impact event: Results of hydrocode simulations [CD-ROM], 29th LPSC (1998), Abst. #1704, Houston, TX.

  50. Pierazzo E., H. J. Melosh, D. A. Kring: Estimates of climatically important gases released in the Chicxulub impact event, in Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution Conf., Sudbury, Canada (September 1997) 40-41.

  51. Pierazzo E., D. A. Crawford: Hydrocode simulations of Chicxulub as an oblique impact event, in Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution Conf., Sudbury, Canada (September 1997) 40.

  52. Melosh H. J., E. Pierazzo: Impact vapor plume expansion with realistic geometry and equation of state, in Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution Conf., Sudbury, Canada (September 1997) 35.

  53. Kring D. A., E. Pierazzo, E. P. Turtle: Composition of Earth’s continental crust as inferred from impact melts in the Maya Block and Kaapvaal Craton, 7th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, Tucson, AZ (June 1997).

  54. Pierazzo E., T. D. Swindle, R. B. Singer, R. P. Sperline: The -SiH functional group spectral feature in lunar soils, 28th LPSC (1997) 1109-1110, Houston, TX.

  55. E. P. Turtle, E. Pierazzo: Constraints on the size of the Vredefort impact crater from numerical modeling, 28th LPSC (1997) 1459-1460, Houston, TX.

  56. H. J. Melosh, E. Pierazzo: Impact vapor plume expansion with realistic geometry and equation of state, 28th LPSC (1997) 935-936, Houston, TX.

  57. D. D. Durda, D. A. Kring, E. Pierazzo, H. J. Melosh: Model calculations of the proximal and globally distributed distal ejecta from the Chicxulub impact crater, 28th LPSC (1997) 315-316, Houston, TX.

  58. Pierazzo E., H. J. Melosh, D. A. Kring: Accurate modeling of the Chicxulub impact event using hydrocodes, in The Role of Impact Processes in the Geological and Biological Evolution of Planet Earth. Abstracts. Postojna, Slovenia (September 1996) 63-64.

  59. Pierazzo E., H. J. Melosh, D. A. Kring: Numerical Simulation of the Chicxulub Impact Event, 27th LPSC (1996) 1029-1030, Houston, TX.

  60. Pierazzo E., R. E. Dickinson: GCM Simulation of the Climate at the end of the Cretaceous, EOS 76 (1995) F133

  61. Pierazzo E., A. M. Vickery, H. J. Melosh: A re-evaluation of impact melt/vapor production, 26th LPSC (1995) 1119-1120, Houston, TX.

  62. Ahmad J., G. Beg Paklar, F. Bonjean, G. Dal Bo’, T. Kaminski, F. Kauker, M. Monai, E. Pierazzo, P. Stone, L. Zampato: The interaction between global warming and the thermohaline circulation, in "Hydrometeorology and climatology", Summer School on Environmental Dynamics Series, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (1995) Venice Italy.

  63. Pierazzo E. et al.: Geologic Remote Sensing on Mars from MESUR Pathfinder, Bull. A.A.S., 25, No. 3 (1993) 1040.

  64. Pierazzo E., R. B. Singer: Wavelength Dependence of Limb-Darkening of Mars from Visible and Near-IR Telescopic Spectral Imaging, 24th LPSC (1993) 1139-1140, Houston, TX.

  65. Pierazzo E., R. B. Singer, P. E. Geissler: Wavelength Dependence of Limb-Darkening of Mars from Visible and Near-IR Spectral Imaging, Bull. A.A.S.,24, (1992) 985-986.

  66. Klein J., D. Fink, G. F. Herzog, E. Pierazzo, R. Middleton, S. Vogt: SCR Produced 41Ca in Lunar Basalt 74275, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Vienna (1989) 113.

  67. Pierazzo E., S. M. Sartori, V. Vanzani: A new method for time series analysis of cosmogenic isotopes in cosmogeophysics, Lab. Nazionale di Legnaro. Annual Report 1988. Padova, Italy (1989) 83-84.

  68. Pierazzo E., S. M. Sartori, V. Vanzani: Study of the modulation of the cosmogenic production in terrestrial and extraterrestrial matter induced by the galactovertical motion of the Solar System', 4th GIFCO Congress, Anacapri, Italy (September 1988).

  69. Pierazzo E., S. M. Sartori, V. Vanzani: Low-frequency signal prediction in the 8000-year bi-decadal time series of cosmogenic 14C stored in tree rings by aliasing the solar activity signal, 4th GIFCO Congress, Anacapri, Italy (September 1988).

  70. Pierazzo E., S. M. Sartori: Aliasing of Schwabe cycle and the de Vries/Suess wiggles in the cosmogenic 14C 9000-year record, 11th European Cosmic Ray Symp., Balatonfüred, Hungary (August 1988) SH-53.

  71. Pierazzo E., S. M. Sartori, V. Vanzani: Cosmogenic nuclide production modulated by the galactovertical motion of the Solar System; a study of the effects in meteorites, 11th European Cosmic Ray Symp., Balatonfüred, Hungary (August 1988) OG-32.

  72. Sartori S. M., E. Pierazzo, F. Marzari, V. Vanzani: A systematic comparison of the predictions of two different models of cosmogenic nuclide production in meteorites, Lab. Nazionale di Legnaro. Annual Report 1987, Padova, Italy (1988) 86-89.

  73. Englert P., M. Haq, E. Pierazzo, S. M. Sartori, B. M. Stievano, V. Vanzani: Age determination of meteorites by the analysis of the cosmogenic content, Lab. Nazionale di Legnaro. Annual Report 1987. Padova, Italy (1988) 83-85.

  74. Pierazzo E., S. M. Sartori, V. Vanzani: Terrestrial impact cratering record revisited by Vector Fourier Analysis, 19th LPSC (1988) 929-930, Houston, TX.


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