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  1. A Thermal Origin to the Asymmetry of the Permanent Dust Cloud at the Moon

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, October 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Robert Luther

  2. Shock Melting and Melt Deposit Patterns in Oblique Impacts: Insights From Numerical Simulations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, August 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Robert Luther

  3. Diaphite structures of Campo del Cielo cliftonites indicate a terrestrial collision‐induced moderate shock process

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, August 2025, Wiley

    Robert Luther

  4. Effects of proximal boulders on ejecta and momentum transfer: Comparison of 2D and 3D hypervelocity impact simulations on Asteroid Dimorphos

    Article • July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  5. Extreme twin densities in calcite as a shock indicator 

    Article • July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  6. Impact-Generated Clastic Injections as a Cause for Stratification in Rubble-Pile Asteroids

    Article • July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  7. Impacts: exploring the far side of the Lunar surface

    Article • July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  8. Long term dynamics of boulders in the Didymos-Dimorphos binary asteroid system

    Article • July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  9. DART-scale Impacts into a Complex Low-strength Target: Insights into Asteroid Dimorphos’s Interior from Simulations

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, July 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Robert Luther

  10. Secondary-impact debris in the Didymos system: What could be observed by Hera?

    Article • EAS Publications Series, July 2025, EDP Sciences

    Robert Luther

  11. Predictions for the interior of asteroid Dimorphos through the DART-scale impact modeling

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  12. From Debris to Resource: Simulating High-Velocity Impacts of Space Debris on the Moon

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  13. Impact Experiments and Model Validation in the frame of the Hera mission 

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  14. Impact disruption of Bjurböle porous chondritic projectile

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  15. Modelling Lunar Impact Flashes from Molten Ejecta

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  16. Numerical Model of Reduction of Apparent Thermal Inertia by Interrupted Vertical Heat-Flow

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  17. Petrography and geochemistry of the Ribbeck aubrite recovered from asteroid 2024 BX1, the closest analog to Mercury?

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  18. Effects of target heterogeneity on impact cratering processes in the light of the Hera mission: combined experimental and numerical approach

    Article • May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  19. High Pressure Shock Metamorphism in Rubble-pile Asteroids using Numerical Simulations

    Article • May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  20. Influence of Layering and Boulder Inclusions in a Granular Target on Crater Formation: Insight from Laboratory and Numerical Studies.

    Article • May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  21. Modeling Campo del Cielo strewn field

    Article • May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  22. Outcome of Collisions in the Early Outer Solar System

    Article • May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  23. Predicting the Consequences of iron-NEO Collisions with Earth: The Impact Effects Knowledge-base

    Article • May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  24. Simulating the Momentum Enhancement with iSALE and SPH: An AIDA Benchmark & Validation Study

    Article • May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  25. Impact Disruption of Bjurböle Porous Chondritic Projectile

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, May 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana, Robert Luther

  26. The Relative Effects of Surface and Subsurface Morphology on the Deflection Efficiency of Kinetic Impactors: Implications for the DART Mission

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, January 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Robert Luther

  27. Campo del Cielo modeling and comparison with observations: II. Funnels and craters

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, November 2023, Wiley

    Robert Luther

  28. Fitting Thermal Evolution Models to the Chronological Record of Erg Chech 002 and Modeling the Ejection Conditions of the Meteorite

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, October 2023, American Astronomical Society

    Robert Luther

  29. Effects of Impact and Target Parameters on the Results of a Kinetic Impactor: Predictions for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, November 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Robert Luther

  30. Momentum Enhancement during Kinetic Impacts in the Low-intermediate-strength Regime: Benchmarking and Validation of Impact Shock Physics Codes

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, October 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Robert Luther

  31. Campo del Cielo Strewn Field: Simulating the Funnel Formation for Vertical & Oblique Impacts 

    Article • September 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  32. Melt production and ejection at lunar intermediate-sized impact craters: where is the molten material deposited? 

    Article • September 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  33. NASA MESSENGER mission: a tool to study Mercury beyond its operative life

    Article • September 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  34. Simulated craters and ejecta on the past Martian water- and ice-rich impact sites

    Article • September 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  35. Simulating the Seismic Signal from Impacts on Asteroids

    Article • September 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  36. Boulder exhumation and segregation by impacts on rubble-pile asteroids

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, September 2022, Elsevier

    Robert Luther

  37. Insight into the Distribution of High-pressure Shock Metamorphism in Rubble-pile Asteroids

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, August 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Robert Luther

  38. Melt Production and Ejection From Lunar Intermediate‐Sized Impact Craters: Where Is the Molten Material Deposited?

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, August 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Robert Luther

  39. Impact Induced Motion of Boulders and Their Effect on Ejecta Emplacement on Rubble-pile Targets 

    Article • July 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Robert Luther

  40. Campo del Cielo modeling and comparison with observations: I. Atmospheric entry of the iron meteoroid

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, June 2022, Wiley

    Robert Luther

  41. Benchmarking impact hydrocodes in the strength regime: Implications for modeling deflection by a kinetic impactor

    Article • Icarus, March 2020, Elsevier

    Robert Luther

  42. The effect of atmospheric interaction on impact ejecta dynamics and deposition

    Article • Icarus, November 2019, Elsevier

    Robert Luther

  43. The role of asteroid strength, porosity and internal friction in impact momentum transfer

    Article • Icarus, September 2019, Elsevier

    Robert Luther

  44. Effect of target properties and impact velocity on ejection dynamics and ejecta deposition

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, July 2018, Wiley

    Robert Luther

  45. Petrographic investigation of shatter cone melt films recovered from MEMIN impact experiments in sandstone and iSALE modeling of their formation boundary conditions

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, July 2018, Wiley

    Robert Luther

  46. Subsurface deformation of experimental hypervelocity impacts in quartzite and marble targets

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, April 2018, Wiley

    Robert Luther

  47. Experimental impact cratering: A summary of the major results of the MEMIN research unit

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, February 2018, Wiley

    Robert Luther

  48. The effect of target properties on transient crater scaling for simple craters

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, August 2017, Wiley

    Robert Luther

  49. Snow carrots after the Chelyabinsk event and model implications for highly porous solar system objects

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Marina A. Ivanova, Robert Luther

  50. Laser-induced melting experiments: Simulation of short-term high-temperature impact processes

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, January 2017, Wiley

    Robert Luther

  51. Correlating laser-generated melts with impact-generated melts: An integrated thermodynamic-petrologic approach

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Robert Luther